Proprietor uneasy over commercial bank lending rates

The staff of John Lewis Styles

At 34, John Lewis bares the persona of an experienced businessman without appearing burdened by the responsibility. Still, he concedes that sometimes the preoccupations of the pursuits associated with running a business take their toll. To those he adds the responsibilities of a young family, a wife and three children to whom he wants to give much more than the material things success can buy. He wants to give them more of himself.

When we met Lewis in his Waterloo Street office on Tuesday afternoon he appeared preoccupied with things that had to do