Waite Rose and Taylor
Waite Rose and Taylor open a small grocery shop at 263 Acton Hill, London. Wallace Wyndham Waite was born in 1881, the son of a successful civil engineer until an unexplained change in family...
View ArticleThe Leckford Estate
The Leckford Estate Today (2012) The Leckford Estate was bought by our Founder in 1929. It covers 4,000 acres in Hampshire and includes a farm, plant nursery and water garden. Our farm produces crops,...
View ArticleThe first Head Offices
The first Waitrose head office was in Kensington, at 23 Gloucester Road, purchased in 1912. The Waite family lived above the shop. By this date there were approximately 25 shops all over London. Due to...
View ArticleThe business behind the business
Waitrose has been part of the John Lewis Partnership since 1937. The Partnership today brings together three divisions Waitrose, John Lewis and Group. The first comprises the food shops of the...
View ArticleSchofield and Martin
At the end of 1944 the Partnership acquired “the small but high class multiple group operating under the name of Schofield and Martin Ltd in Southend and the adjoining areas of Essex”. The twelve...
View ArticleOur Business
Waitrose first appeared on the high street in 1904 when Wallace Wyndham Waite, Arthur Rose and David Taylor opened their shop in Acton. They managed to create a successful business selling a wide...
View ArticleMarina Mall Dubai
In 2008 Waitrose took the bold step to provide Dubai with an assortment which many British Dubai based customers found familiar. Since then the shop has surprised many travelling through the area, not...
View ArticleFindlater Mackie Todd
Findlater Mackie Todd was acquired by the Partnership on 9th February 1993. This business had been set up 170 years earlier by a Scotsman, Alexander Findlater who had moved to Dublin to seek his...
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