Annual Financial Report

22 April 2016

John Lewis plc

("the Company")

Annual Report & Accounts 2016

The Company announces that it has posted or made available the Annual Report & Accounts and Notice of AGM of the Company for the year ended 30 January 2016 to all its shareholders.

The Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of AGM are available to view on the Company's website, www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk. The documentation has also been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for public inspection at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.

Disclosure of Home Member State

For the purposes of the Transparency Directive, the Home Member State of John Lewis plc is the United Kingdom.

For further information please contact Esther Lam, Assistant Company Secretary (tel 020 7592 6995).