With less than a month to go until Christmas, John Lewis is reporting weekly sales of over £78 million (ending Saturday 24 November) as the cold weather and imminent onset of party season has prompted a sales uplift of 10 per cent on both last year and last week.
As evening wear, lingerie, handbags and premium beauty brands sell well, Britain's best-loved department store chain also saw its newly refurbished Oxford Street branch report its first £1 million week day this year, a week earlier than last year.
Patrick Lewis, Director of Retail Operations at John Lewis said: 'The cold crisp weather this week has certainly created a festive buzz in our shops and we are very encouraged by these results which show an excellent increase on strong figures from both last week and last year. It is clear that 'big name' brands are important to shoppers in 2007 with gift-buyers already heading to audio and toys, and party goers heading for the fashion floors or creating their own bespoke outfits with some help from our haberdashery department.'
John Lewis began in 1864 with the opening of the first shop in London's Oxford Street. 'Never Knowingly Undersold', our unique promise to our customers that the price of any item we sell will always be as low as the lowest price in the neighborhood, has been our slogan for over 75 years.
John Lewis has one production unit Herbert Parkinson in Lancashire, where we make our own-brand furnishings, fabrics and curtains.
Herbert Parkinson makes John Lewis's own-brand duvets, pillows, furnishing fabrics and ready-made curtains, and provides our made-to-measure curtain service.
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