VIP Speakers
Louise Masson, General Manager of House of Fraser/Jenners
Barry Matheson, Managing Director, John Lewis Aberdeen & Edinburgh

House of Fraser
This leading, national premium department store group trades principally under the iconic House of Fraser brand name through a portfolio of 61 well-invested stores as well as through their rapidly growing web-store. Last year the group made an underlying operating profit of £69.7m on turnover of £1.1bn www.houseoffraser.co.uk

John Lewis
A chain of upmarket department stores operating throughout Great Britain, John Lewis Edinburgh, in the St. James Shopping Centre, is Scotland's largest department store, offering 5 floors of the best in fashion, home and technology.

The employee-owned department store chain reported an “outstanding” Christmas; total sales rose 9.3 per cent to £596m in the five weeks to December 31, year on year. Sales from stores open at least a year rose 6.2 per cent with 3 percentage points of this estimated to have been generated by online sales. www.johnlewis.com