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The Lewis's Building is a 20th-century Grade II listed building [1] located in Liverpool, England. Purpose-built as the flagship store for the now defunct Lewis's department store chain, the building was set to be redeveloped as part of redevelopment project Central Village .
The business further grew in 1961, when John Lewis purchased the department store next door, Bon Marche, from its owners the Liverpool Co-operative Society and merged it into George Henry Lee. Bon Marche had previously been formed in the late 19th century by David Lewis, of Lewis's, but had been sold as a failing business to the Co-op in the 1950s.
Lewis's Building, Liverpool Former Lewis's Department Store, Market Street, Manchester (as Primark, in 2008). Lewis's is an online retailer and homeware brand. It was also a chain of British department stores that operated from 1856 to 2010.
John Lewis plc, [5] [6] trading as John Lewis & Partners, is a British chain of high-end department stores operating across the United Kingdom. It is part of the John Lewis Partnership plc , a holding company held in a trust on behalf of its employees as the beneficiaries of the trust. [ 7 ]
Liverpool ONE is a shopping, residential, and leisure complex in Liverpool, England. [3] The project involved the redevelopment of 42 acres (170,000 m 2) of land in the city centre. It is a retail-led development anchored by the department store John Lewis. [4]
The largest of the traditional department store groups in the UK in terms of sales and profit. John Lewis owns 30 full-line department stores. Nine long-established stores, each trading under their original name, have been re-branded as 'John Lewis' since 2000. Peter Jones in Chelsea, London retains its original names. Stores include: Cardiff
Liverpool Resurgent (1956) by Jacob Epstein. Liverpool Resurgent is an artwork by Jacob Epstein, mounted above the main entrance to the former Lewis's department store building in Ranelagh Street, Liverpool. It comprises a large bronze statue and three relief panels.
David Lewis (19 December 1823 – 4 December 1885), was a British merchant and philanthropist. The founder of Lewis's department store in Liverpool, in 1879 he conceived the idea of what is claimed to be the world's first Christmas grotto , entitled 'Christmas Fairyland'. [ 1 ]