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Blackwell Book Chain Owner Plans To Hand Firm Over To Staff

Posted at 6:13AM Thursday 09 Sep 2010

The privately owned book chain Blackwell has outlined plans to copy the way that the John Lewis department store does business – and hand ownership of the company over to its 900 staff.

The 130-year-old academic books specialist is closing down its Oxford head office and relocating staff to work in the stores. Toby Blackwell, the current owner of the business, is setting up an employee partnership, following the John Lewis model, that will hand control of the company to the staff.

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