The managing director of John Lewis has left the department store chain less than three years after taking on the job.
Peter Ruis, who is leaving ‘to pursue new projects’, will be replaced by Will Kernan, currently a non-executive board member at John Lewis.
Ruis returned to John Lewis as the chain’s managing director in January 2024, having previously worked as the firm’s buying director.
He was appointed by former chair Dame Sharon White in January 2024, just months before she was replaced by Jason Tarry.
The update emerged weeks after Tarry warned staff that the department store group’s profits were being squeezed by
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