“Trading is not just a sideline for me. It is what I do. It is how I make a living. I spend much of my time sourcing items at a price that I can sell”
On the surface what he has to say has an uncomplicated, ‘cut and dried’ ring to it. Ten minutes or so later you discover that John Lewis, 37-year-old Managing Director of John Lewis Styles has a lot more to say and that what he has to say is thoughtful, contemplative and reflective of the thinking of a man whose focus on the vicissitudes of the retail trade rank second only to his interest in the welfare of his family.
By virtue of his family background (the popular retail outlets the Gift Centre and Shoe Source are run by other members of a family that has been in the retail business since 1981), Lewis has been intimate with business for all of his life. John Lewis Styles, almost certainly the single
