Archive of all Marks & Spencer articles – Page 12
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NewsOcado Retail sales edge up on pricing and increased customer numbers
The online retailer’s first quarter revenues were up 3.4% year on year to £584m
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News‘Gut healthy’ new Superloaf seals exclusive M&S store deal
Packed with ‘bio-active plant-based compounds’ made using ‘targeted fermentation’, the loaves will be co-manufactured and co-packaged by Hovis
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NewsPark Cakes looks at sale options as it seeks fresh funding
The group, which makes the Colin the Caterpillar cake for Marks & Spencer, is working with advisory firms Teneo and A&M to explore its options, The Grocer has learned.
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NewsAldi bosses to run London Marathon as Cuthbert the Caterpillar
Aldi UK MD Graham Hetherington and group MDs Dan Ronald and Oliver King will run in the three-person costume
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Analysis & FeaturesSupermarkets’ special edition products for Mother’s Day 2023
Whether you’re looking to spoil your mum with something sweet, savoury, or simply alcoholic, we’ve got the scoop on Mother’s Day 2023
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NewsM&S chief says spring budget should pause incoming regulation for retail
‘We would ask for no further legislative burden acting as a drag on business from unnecessary taxes or regulation,’ said Machin
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NewsIP law firm sets out to ‘revise thinking’ on copycats
Stobbs commissioned its review of evidence on ‘the psychology of lookalikes’ to challenge the legal notion that having a different brand name is sufficient to avoid customer confusion or deception
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NewsM&S drops Ella’s Kitchen babyfood in favour of deal with Piccolo
The move comes just under five years after M&S axed its entire range of own-label babyfood, replacing it with Ella’s
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Comment & OpinionAs UK gender pay gap widens, supermarket boards offer a ray of hope
Examples abound of supermarkets hiring women to senior leadership positions
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Analysis & FeaturesPower List: The 10 most powerful women in the UK’s supermarkets
In the latest in our series of Power Lists on women in grocery, we look at the progress supermarkets are making on gender diversity, and shine a light on the high-profile female talent that’s rising to the top
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Range PreviewHot cross buns, cheese and BLTs: the M&S Easter range
Marks & Spencer has unveiled its 2023 own-label Easter range, featuring popular favourites like Percy and Colin
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NewsM&S to raise shopworker pay for third time in 18 months
The latest rise is a £57m investment in shopworker pay, according to M&S
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NewsNew Northern Ireland deal solves ‘Rubik’s Cube’ protocol, says M&S chairman
The ‘Windsor Framework’, agreed yesterday by prime minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, is set to replace the NI protocol
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NewsOcado extends Tesco price match in response to cost of living crisis
The price promotion is an extension of the Ocado’s long-standing Low Price Promise
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NewsLidl becomes latest retailer to ration fresh produce amid shortages
It follows similar moves by Tesco, Aldi, Asda and Morrisons, which issued buying restrictions on some lines last week in light of empty shelves
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NewsCheryl Potter appointment gives M&S women majority board
Potter has previously held roles as head of the global consumer team at private equity firm Permira and non-executive director of Dr Martens and Homebase
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NewsM&S food director George Wright named new FareShare boss
FareShare said Wright would bring with him a “deep understanding” of the food industry
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NewsFree meals for kids: M&S and Tesco relaunch offers for half-term holiday
Tesco and M&S have relaunced free kids’ meal offers, which also ran last year
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NewsM&S CEO Stuart Machin joins calls for reform of Apprenticeship Levy
M&S would be able to train more young people without the levy system, according to Machin
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NewsM&S legal win is new ‘line in sand’ for copycatting
Aldi was last week held by High Court to have infringed M&S’s registered designs for a range of gin-based liqueurs