John Lewis Partnership
British retail company
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| November 2024 | Confirmed plans to invest £800m in the John Lewis brand over the next four years. |
| September 5 2024 | Announced return of 'never knowingly undersold' price pledge. |
| January 27 2024 | Announced plans to cut up to 11,000 jobs over the next five years. |
| 2023 | Expanded to 35 stores throughout Great Britain. |
| 2022 | Original scheduled completion date for the Sheffield Retail Quarter, which was to potentially include a new John Lewis store. |
| February 2022 | Announced end of 'never knowingly undersold' price pledge. |
| 2020 | Closure of branches in Aberdeen, Birmingham, Peterborough, Sheffield, Watford, and York |
| 2020 | John Lewis & Partners closed all of its At Home shops in Ashford, Basingstoke, Chester, Croydon, Newbury, Swindon, Tamworth, and Tunbridge Wells. |
| December 2020 | All John Lewis concessions inside Myer stores in Australia were closed down. |
| July 9 2020 | John Lewis announced the permanent closure of its travel hub stores at Heathrow and St Pancras following the first Covid-19 national lockdown. |
| March 21 2020 | Announced temporary closure of all stores due to COVID-19 pandemic. |
| December 2019 | John Lewis reduced the size of its concession at Arnotts Dublin store in Ireland. |
| July 13 2019 | Closure of Knight & Lee department store in Southsea |
| 2018 | Opened stores in Cheltenham and London White City. |
| September 4 2018 | Underwent major rebrand to John Lewis & Partners. |
| March 2018 | Opened 50th store at Westfield London shopping centre. |
| 2017 | Opened Oxford store. |
| May 2017 | John Lewis scrapped its previously planned Brighton store development. |
| February 2017 | John Lewis expanded into the Australian market by opening five shop-in-shop branches within Myer department stores, focusing on homewares and Australian-sized bedding. |
| 2016 | Opened stores in Chelmsford and Leeds. |
| October 2016 | John Lewis opened a homeware concession at Arnotts Dublin store on Henry Street in Ireland, featuring a limited range of John Lewis branded home furnishings. |
| September 2016 | John Lewis unveiled plans for a new store in Brighton, originally expected to open in late 2018. |
| 2015 | John Lewis & Partners opened an At Home shop in Basingstoke. |
| September 24 2015 | Opened Birmingham city centre store in Grand Central shopping centre. |
| June 17 2015 | John Lewis opened a new 'at home' store in Horsham, West Sussex, simultaneously relocating a Waitrose branch from the town centre. |
| 2014 | John Lewis opened a small airside store in the newly rebuilt Terminal 2 at London Heathrow Airport during the summer. |
| 2014 | Opening of John Lewis & Partners York branch |
| 2012 | John Lewis & Partners expanded its At Home shops by opening new locations in Chichester and Ipswich. |
| 2012 | John Lewis & Partners opened At Home shops in Ashford and Newbury. |
| November 2012 | A new John Lewis 'at home' store opened in Ipswich. |
| October 12 2012 | Opened first smaller format store in Exeter. |
| April 2012 | John Lewis 'at home' stores opened in Newbury and Chichester, West Sussex during the spring. |
| March 2012 | John Lewis opened additional 'at home' stores in Newbury and Chichester, West Sussex during the spring. |
| 2011 | Opened London Stratford store. |
| 2011 | John Lewis & Partners expanded its At Home shops, opening locations in Chester, Tamworth, and Tunbridge Wells. |
| July 2011 | Announced plans to open 10 new smaller format stores in city centre locations over the next five years. |
| February 2011 | Appointed as Official Department Store provider for the London 2012 Olympic Games. |
| 2010 | John Lewis expanded its 'at home' store concept by opening five new stores in areas outside traditional John Lewis store locations, including Croydon, Tunbridge Wells, Tamworth, Chester, and Swindon. |
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