John Lewis Partnership posts first half profit

A year into the company’s five-year ‘Partnership Plan’ to return the business to sustainable profit of 400 million pounds a year, John Lewis Partnership reported first half profit before exceptional items of 69 million pounds, which was 124 million pounds up on 2020/21, when the company made a loss of 55 million pounds. The company’s sales for the period improved 6 percent to 5,874 million pounds.