The Monday Briefing: John Lewis, Thomas Pink, Armani
Everything you need to know from the weekend s news.
John Lewis: The John Lewis Partnership is planning to open hundreds of “mini John Lewis stores in its Waitrose supermarkets. Since 2019, the concept was trialled in Lymington in Hampshire and Lincoln in the East Midlands Waitrose branches. The retailer is now testing several versions of the concept at three additional Waitrose shops: Wallingford in Oxford and Godalming and Horley in Surrey. Partnership chairman Sharon White plans for John Lewis products to be sold in 280 Waitrose stores that currently sells general merchandise.
Thomas Pink: Former JD Sports trading director Nick Preston, who has also previously worked at Harvey Nichols as menswear buying controller and House of Fraser as a buying manager, has reportedly acquired Thomas Pink from luxury conglomerate LVMH. The deal is understood to include the intellectual property of the brand but not its website or shops,
A former JD Sports executive has made an audacious swoop on upmarket shirtmaker Thomas Pink after the business ceased trading shortly before Christmas, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Nick Preston, who has also worked at Harvey Nichols and House of Fraser, has brokered a deal to take control of the business from the French luxury goods giant LVMH, which also owns Louis Vuitton.
The deal is understood to include the intellectual property of the brand but not its website or shops.
In the pink: Models Isaac Carew and Florence Kosky at a Thomas Pink event
A new website is being prepared to relaunch the label and a company called Thomas Pink Shirtmaker has been registered in the state of Delaware, America.
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But Lisa – a former secretary whose 17 novels have sold some five million copies since her 1999 debut Ralph’s Party – is also acutely aware of households where the danger is behind closed doors, following her own emotionally abusive first marriage.
“When the first lockdown was announced, I felt this cold dread flow through me,” she explains.
“Even though I am now happily remarried to a wonderful man, it triggered those feelings of not being able to see the people you love, including family.”
For Lisa, there are unsettling similarities between lockdown and the coercive control she experienced first-hand during her five-year-long first marriage.