The online home delivery service of John Lewis partnership (JPL) would be extended to 27 countries by this August. The new countries in the expansion would include the USA, Singapore and Australia.

John Lewis is currently offering customers and employees an opportunity to invest £10,000 in the organization. The Company has offered a new Partnership Bond of five years that will deliver returns of 6.5% per annum.

As the John Lewis's Christmas advertisement of a dejected dog left alone in the snow conveyed a wrong message about the care of the animals, so the retailer pulled down the advert after complaints made against it.

The new Christmas commercial of John Lewis was first exhibited on Friday in the windows of John Lewis' Ocford Street store.

The commercial was launched on the TV on Saturday during the ad break of the X Factor. The soundtrack of the ad, which the bookmakers William Hill has given 10-1 odds of ranking first in the list is the Elton John's 'Your Song' sung by Ellie Goulding.

Britain's most loved store, will reportedly be offering some insurance products for which the consumers of course will have to pay some extra cash.

Going on with their slogan 'never knowingly undersold on quality, price or service', the store has come up with this brand new idea following the several strikes, volcanic ash and floods that the consumers had to face this year.

In August, the retail sales climbed down 0.5% in comparison to July. It is for the first time after January that a fall has been witnessed by the retail sector, adding to the worries of a double dip recession.

With the World Cup fever growing, John Lewis Partnership has again earned double digit revenues as the sales increased by 10% at its departmental stores.

As like-for-like sales showing growth of 14.5%, the total sales tax excluding VAT also increased by 17.9% to £53.99m for the week that ended on June 5.

The net sales have grown by 8.5%.

Samsung UE40 C7000 has been put on sale at John Lewis, which has become the first retailer in UK to sell the first LCD 3D television that will be accessible to the general public.

The main thing is that the 40 inch LCD model costs £1799 only, and comes with free five year guarantee.

Department store chain John Lewis said that it suffered a drop of 1.4 per cent in revenue during the week ended January 9 as cold weather and icy conditions dissuaded shoppers from hitting the high street.

Aberdeen store experienced a fall of 17.2 per cent in sales due to bad weather, while sales tumbled 1.3 per cent at the Glasgow store.

British retailer John Lewis has reported an increase of 13.3 per cent in its departmental store sales for the week ended October 10 as compared with the same period of 2008.

Sales at John Lewis twenty-eight department stores jumped to settle at £55.4 million during the concerned week.