John Lewis Business Strategy

6.1 Just Eat Just Eat is one of Europe’s largest takeaway food delivery companies that gained over £2.5 billion in orders which then generated revenue up to £375.7 million and profit of £91.3 million after taxation in 2015 (Annual Reports and Accounts 2016, 2018) and remains one of the market leaders in the UK and Europe. Although Just Eat doesn’t operate in the exact same industry as Jinn as they are an intermediary between the customer and the restaurant, they are an example of successful management in a very saturated market that is growing year on year as they also had 17.6 million active users, a 31% increase from the previous year (Annual Reports and Accounts 2016, 2018). Just Eat are an example of successful management in a very saturated

The John Lewis Partnership is made up of 2 companies, the retailer John Lewis and the supermarket Waitrose. The John Lewis partnership, was founded in 1929 by John Spedan Lewis to ‘’allow future generations of employees to take forward his 'experiment in industrial democracy’’ (Knowledge, 2018). The John Lewis Partnership is also one of the UK’s largest employee owned companies in the UK (Knowledge, 2018).

Being a part of a partnership helps improve employee engagement by allowing the ‘partners’ to have a say on the way in which the business operates, as well as offer a wide range of benefits such as profit sharing, offer a non-contributory pension scheme, offering a 12%-25% discount in both companies in the partnership, offering a base of 22 days paid holiday, which increases with time spent at the partnership, subsidised rates at several sports clubs, hotels and a 50% discount on selected theatre and musical performances (Knowledge, 2018).

The partnership also offers a financial bursary of up to £5,000 per year for partners performing in sport at a national or international level, as well as encourage partners to take part in various clubs and societies (Knowledge,