The outgoing chair of John Lewis will be the shortest serving in the partnerships history. | ITV National News
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The working farm supplies Waitrose with apples, oil seed rape, and has a vineyard that produces a sparkling wine. ITV News can reveal that earlier this year, White decided to try to raise up to £100 million through a sale of both the remaining Leckford land and buildings and of Longstock Park, but she encountered resistance at the top of the business.
To get things done requires the agreement of all three. As a result, White hasn’t always been able to make the changes she wanted to. We are told that she has the full confidence of the Partnership Board and it was her decision to stand down. In the last few years, White has made decisions as Chair which she argues are essential if the Partnership is to survive but some of those decisions - the suspension of the annual bonus for partners; the closure of 16 department stores; the construction of new homes to rent; the renegotiation of the timing of shifts at Waitrose - have also proved unpopular.The Partnership Board resisted White’s plan to sell the Leckford Estate.
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