Waitrose United Kingdom

Waitrose is a British supermarket chain owned by the largest employee-owned retailer, the John Lewis Partnership. The company operates 314 Waitrose supermarkets, and 11 Waitrose convenience stores in England, Scotland and Wales. Their partnership also operates some textile manufacturing facilities (Herbert Parkinson), farming business (Leckford Estate), as well as Greenbee, a direct service business for travel, leisure, and financial needs. Waitrose UK generated 60% of the global John Lewis' revenue, for a 3% market share.

29/05/2018

Waitrose has its team of product developer as well as buyer and technical responsible. The product and range development lasts 18 month from the initial stage (specification) till the market launch.

Ice cream represents ⅓ of their frozen sales. Their assortment also includes vegetarian food items and party foods also known as finger foods.

They want to deal with suppliers who are BRC certified and they are interested to known whether these suppliers know the British market ;  if they have ever worked in the United Kingdom and where.