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Patrick Lewis will leave the John Lewis Partnership in June
John Lewis has handed a £1.5m payoff to the great-grandson of its founder ahead of his departure from the retailer in June.
Finance director Patrick Lewis, the last remaining family member who worked at the department store chain, has pocketed the sum after stepping back from his role last year.
The move comes after the John Lewis Partnership scrapped staff bonuses for the first time since 1953 last year and sunk to a £517m loss last month.
Mr Lewis has been with the organisation for more than a quarter of a century. He was replaced by customer service director Bérangère Michel in December and has been on leave since then.
Three Things Summit to support small and medium sized UK businesses Current and former CEOs from some of the UK s best-known companies will come together and offer their advice to SMEs at this month’s Three Things Summit.
Being held on 26-28 April, the virtual event will see keynote speakers offer just three pieces of positive, forward-looking, and actionable advice for small businesses to help them build back better in 2021.
Speakers at the event include Sharon White, chair of the John Lewis Partnership, Lord Karan Bilimoria of Cobra Beer and CBI, Octopus Energy’s Greg Williams, and William Reeve, non-exec chairman of Nutmeg.
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Meet the pioneering women DJs, producers, vocalists and remixers who were part of the New York underground dance scene from disco onwards. Presented by the Queen of Clubland herself, Martha Wash, whose vocals feature on 12 number one Billboard Dance chart hits to date.
All the women are linked by one nightclub, the Paradise Garage, which alongside underground clubs in Chicago and Detroit would help lay the foundation for modern dance music. Underground DJ s, clubs, and producers were not only important in breaking mainstream hits, they were also a safe haven for LGBTQ+ People of Colour.
We meet Yvonne Turner, Rebecca Mackenzie, Carol Cooper, Gail Sky King and Sharon White, who were all Paradise Garage regulars from its opening in the late 70s. We follow their first steps in the music business, after the death of disco.