Dame Sharon White (pictured), the John Lewis Partnership s chairman who is leading its turnaround, said she remained cautiously optimistic about the retailer s recovery.
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A narrow-fronted shop that had once been a tobacconist s was the unprepossessing site chosen by a young man called John Lewis as the location of his drapery business in 1864.