Waitrose

About Waitrose

Here, we're more than employees – we're OWNERS. That's why we're called PARTNERS. And that's why we all go ABOVE and BEYOND to share our KNOWLEDGE and PASSION for QUALITY FOOD with people who matter most – YOU, our customers. Because for us IT'S PERSONAL. Waitrose & Partners’ journey began on the high street in 1904, when Wallace Wyndham Waite, Arthur Rose and David Taylor opened their first shop in Acton. The enterprising trio created a successful business selling what was, at the time, exceptionally varied grocery produce. High standards and keen pricing ensured growth, with Waite focusing on the buying, Rose taking responsibility for accounts and Taylor managing the shop floor. Two years later Taylor departed, leaving Waite and Rose to form, in 1908, the now widely recognised name of Waitrose Ltd.