The client
- The John Lewis Partnership is the UK’s largest employee-owned organisation.
- 70,000 permanent staff, known as Partners, co-own the business, which includes 31 John Lewis shops (28 department stores and 3 John Lewis at home shops), an online and catalogue business (johnlewis.com), 235 Waitrose supermarkets, a production unit and a farm.
- The Partnership had a turnover of nearly £7.4 billion in 2009/10.
What we did
Flag has been retained since 2003 by the John Lewis Partnership to assist with the production of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports, both at a divisional and Partnership-wide level. The 2010 report, A shared passion, embraces the values and approach of the UK’s biggest co-owned business, demonstrating how the Partnership seeks to offer a more sustainable way of doing business.
For the first time, the report is aligned with the GRI’s G3 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, at a self-declared Application Level C. The report, available as a downloadable PDF as well as a dynamic, interactive PDF for online reading, is supported by an eight-page printed summary.