JOHN LEWIS PLC
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Next accounts due
2026-07-31 (in 2mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-25
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-11 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-27
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£924M
-10.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£2B
+2% vs 2024
Employees
69,000
-5.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£80M
+35.6% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-25
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-27 | 2025-01-25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £10,781,000,000 | £11,113,000,000 | |
| Operating profit | £150,000,000 | £197,000,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £59,000,000 | £80,000,000 | |
| Net profit | £44,000,000 | £82,000,000 | |
| Cash | £1,028,000,000 | £924,000,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,610,000,000 | £4,670,000,000 | |
| Net assets | £1,995,000,000 | £2,034,000,000 | |
| Equity | £1,995,000,000 | £2,034,000,000 | |
| Average employees | 72,900 | 69,000 | |
| Wages | £1,538,000,000 | £1,604,000,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-01-27 | 2025-01-25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.4% | 1.8% | |
| Net margin | 0.4% | 0.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 3.3% | 4.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 71.0% | 69.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.03x | 1.09x | |
| Interest cover | 1.09x | 1.19x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors, after reviewing the Group's operating budgets, investment plans and financing arrangements, consider that the Company and Group have sufficient financing available at the date of approval of this report. Accordingly, the Directors have concluded that the Group is a going concern and the financial statements have been prepared on that basis.”
Group structure
- JOHN LEWIS PLC · parent
- Admiral Park Retail Management Limited 54%
- Buyroom Limited 100%
- Carlisle Place Ventures Limited 100%
- Clicklink Logistics Limited 50%
- Dishpash Limited 100%
- Herbert Partnership Limited 100%
- JF Scotland Limited 100%
- JLP Scottish Limited Partnership 100%
- John Lewis Car Finance Limited 100%
- John Lewis Finance Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 42 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHEONG TUNG SING, Jane Christina | Secretary | 2021-11-01 | — | — |
| MOUNSEY, Andrew John | Director | 2024-09-06 | Aug 1978 | British |
| TARRY, Jason Mark | Director | 2024-09-12 | May 1967 | British |
Show 42 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLACKBURN, Simon Jim | Secretary | 2021-06-07 | 2021-11-01 |
| BUCHANAN, Alan | Secretary | 2014-07-31 | 2015-01-31 |
| CASELY-HAYFORD, Margaret Henrietta Augusta | Secretary | 2006-04-28 | 2014-07-31 |
| HUBBER, Keith Michael | Secretary | 2015-02-01 | 2018-01-31 |
| NEVILLE, Terence Frank | Secretary | 2001-05-10 | 2006-04-27 |
| PRITCHARD, Brian James | Secretary | — | 2001-05-09 |
| SIMPSON, Peter | Secretary | 2018-01-31 | 2021-06-07 |
| ALEXANDER, Ian David | Director | 1993-07-22 | 2005-11-27 |
| CARPENTER, John Barnard Grantley | Director | — | 1999-12-24 |
| CASSONI, Marisa Luisa | Director | 2006-07-20 | 2012-06-01 |
| CLOAKE, Dudley Richard | Director | — | 2002-12-30 |
| ESOM, Steven Derek | Director | 2002-03-11 | 2007-04-24 |
| FALCONER, Peter | Director | — | 1996-06-20 |
| FELWICK, David Leonard | Director | — | 2004-09-03 |
| FLEMING, Ian Ashley | Director | 2013-01-23 | 2014-08-15 |
| FLETCHER, Leslie Herbert | Director | — | 1993-07-22 |
| HAMPSON, Stuart | Director | — | 2007-04-01 |
| HAUFF, Reyn | Director | 2009-12-15 | 2015-01-27 |
| KANKIWALA, Nishpank Rameshbabu | Director | 2023-05-01 | 2025-03-26 |
| KILLEN, Tracey Anne | Director | 2007-04-30 | 2020-07-10 |
| LEWIS, John Patrick | Director | 2015-09-14 | 2020-12-31 |
| LEWIS, Peter Tyndale | Director | — | 1993-02-01 |
| MAYFIELD, Andrew Charles, Sir | Director | 2001-09-24 | 2020-02-04 |
| MAYHEW, Christopher Luke | Director | 1993-07-22 | 2004-12-24 |
| MICHEL, Berangere Andree Mireille | Director | 2015-09-01 | 2024-09-06 |
| MICHEL, Berangere Andree Mireille | Director | 2009-12-15 | 2015-01-27 |
| NICKOLDS, Paula Margaret | Director | 2017-01-11 | 2020-01-23 |
| O'CALLAGHAN, Brian Anthony | Director | — | 2000-01-28 |
| ORYAN, Peter Jerome Francis | Director | — | 1993-09-09 |
| OSBORNE, Rachel Claire Elizabeth | Director | 2013-01-23 | 2015-08-31 |
| PRICE, Mark Ian | Director | 2005-01-30 | 2016-03-18 |
| QUINN, Jean Margaret | Director | — | 1993-07-22 |
| STILL, Peter Walker Kenneth | Director | — | 1993-09-09 |
| STREET, Andrew John | Director | 2002-12-30 | 2016-10-28 |
| WALTON, Guy William | Director | 2013-01-23 | 2015-01-27 |
| WEIR, Helen Alison | Director | 2012-06-01 | 2014-12-01 |
| WHITE, Sharon Michele, Dame | Director | 2020-02-04 | 2024-09-12 |
| WOODHOUSE, Loraine | Director | 2014-12-01 | 2015-09-13 |
| WREFORD-BROWN, Wilfred Nigel | Director | — | 2002-12-27 |
| YOUNG, Alexander John | Director | 2014-12-01 | 2015-01-27 |
| YOUNG, Alexander John | Director | 2013-01-23 | 2014-12-01 |
| YOUNG, David Ernest | Director | 1993-02-01 | 2002-03-11 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Lewis Partnership Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 256 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-03-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-30 | AD04 | address | Move registers to registered office company with new address | |
| 2024-07-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-10 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-07-05 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2024-07-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-07-01 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2024-07-01 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2024-07-01 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-05-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-06-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-05-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-06-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-01-25 vs 2024-01-27
-
Turnover
+3.1%
£10,781,000,000 £11,113,000,000
-
Cash
-10.1%
£1,028,000,000 £924,000,000
-
Net assets
+2%
£1,995,000,000 £2,034,000,000
-
Employees
-5.3%
72,900 69,000
-
Operating profit
+31.3%
£150,000,000 £197,000,000
-
Profit before tax
+35.6%
£59,000,000 £80,000,000
-
Wages
+4.3%
£1,538,000,000 £1,604,000,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers