The John Lewis Partnership is a visionary and successful way of doing business, boldly putting the happiness of Partners at the centre of everything it does. It's the embodiment of an ideal, the outcome of nearly a century of endeavour to create a different sort of company, owned by Partners dedicated to serving customers with flair and fairness.

All 69,000 permanent staff are Partners who own 26 John Lewis department stores, 192 Waitrose supermarkets, Greenbee production unit and a farm with a turnover of nearly £6.8 billion last year. Partners share in the benefits and profits of a business that puts them first.

We have provided our services to John Lewis/Waitrose and worked closely with their consultants since 1998 assisting in the design of the PA systems for each new and refurbished store nationwide. Working closely with also the main Electrical Contractors (T Clarke PLC, Guardian ECL, Paul Earl, EIC Limited, NG Bailey, Lorne Stewart Ltd) to ensure the correct installation and PA systems were installed.

Most recently Aqord Limited won the contract for the design, installation and commission of the PA system for the new John Lewis store in Leicester a 32 week project.

This was a VE project so working closely with John Lewis and CSA Consulting Engineers to design a system that met all the requirements of John Lewis. The final design was an enhanced zoned PA system. We chose equipment built by Baldwin Boxall. Baldwin Boxall delivered a system to our design on time. The system proved itself first time when demonstrated to the client.

Not only were tasked with providing a PA System but also a PC based customer messaging system to advised customers of opening and closing etc.

Over The years we have successfully completed in the over 40 stores. We continue to build our close working relationship with John Lewis/Waitrose, the Consultants and the Electrical Contractors on current and future projects.

Aqord Limited is proud to be involved in the continued success and growth of John Lewis/Waitrose.