John Lewis has announced plans to open a series of new format shops specialising exclusively
on the home sector to trade as John Lewis at home and has appointed Cushman & Wakefield and
Ashworths as their retained agents.
The new shop (at circa 50-60,000 sq ft) is smaller than the conventional full line shop but
will still offer two thirds of the products found in a typical full line offer within a high
quality environment.
The first pilot store opened in Poole on October 22nd 2009.
The target is to open some 30 shops both in town centre and out of town locations to give
customers more convenient access to John Lewis products.
In the first instance, all opportunities should be forwarded to: