Archive of all Marks & Spencer articles – Page 73
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M&S in marketing reshuffle
Marks & Spencer is reorganising its marketing group in a reshuffle that will create at least three new senior posts. Baker Street has already stated that the necessary skills will be found externally. Group marketing director Alan McWalter will run...
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M&S sells property
Marks and Spencer, under new property chief Chris Williams, is looking to raise a further £250m from selling off property. Property already sold or on the market includes Body Shop and Pizza Land outlets adjacent to M&S stores in Edinburgh, and...
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Multiples: Budgens goes ripe and ready
Budgens has moved into ripe and ready following pioneers such as Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury which have had such ranges on their shelves for more than five years. Dip Chotal, produce marketing manager, said the 19 own label range would also...
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Multiples: Waitrose boss spells out future plans
Sales at Waitrose are on course to smash through the £2bn barrier this year. And md David Felwick said he was confident the chain would not be hit as Sainsbury, Safeway and Marks and Spencer try to rebuild their food businesses. "It is interesting...
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The Grocer focus on ethnic food: A VITAL INFUSION
Marks and Spencer's new Fusion range has all the right ingredients for success a top chef, exotic flavours and a trendy audience Last week Marks and Spencer rolled out its most ambitious ready meal programme to date, launching its Fusion food...
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The Grocer focus on ethnic food:
Lunchboxes with a difference Sushi is rapidly becoming the smart alternative to lunchtime sandwiches and conventional party canapés thanks to the efforts of Waitrose and Marks and Spencer among others. Waitrose was the first multiple to take...
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Marks and Spencer: M&S hangs hope of good recovery in the fo
Marks and Spencer this week confirmed that its food business took a battering last year, with like for like sales down 1.3% in the 12 months to March 31.The troubled retailer has recovered slightly to show like for like growth of 3.2% in the last...
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M&S puts expansion plans on hold
Marks and Spencer has put on hold all international expansion while it sorts out its UK operations, chairman Luc Vandevelde said this week. "At this point we've stopped all expansion everywhere until we know where we want to go and how we want to do...
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Streamlining process ahead for M&S management team
Marks and Spencer has restructured its main board, saying it is now focusing on strategy and corporate governance so no longer needs the same degree of "functional representation". Chairman Luc Vandevelde said this reflected a new approach that...
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It's now too late for former staff to claim says M&S
Marks and Spencer will not be facing a huge pay out to former managers, the chain has claimed. Former M&S food marketing and design executive Gerry Hodes was unfairly dismissed last year, according to a recent industrial tribunal decision, and is...
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Organics: M&S set for exclusive ranges
Marks and Spencer has announced a joint organic farming venture with the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service. Through the venture, a range of brassica crops and some root vegetables could also be tested for sale on an exclusive basis....
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Blow for M&S as directors quit
Marks & Spencer suffered another setback this week when the head of its food business unit quit. Roger Whiteside is leaving to join LM Solutions, a company set up to seek internet opportunities in the European food markets. M&S said no sucessor...
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M&S relaunches with image makeover
Marks & Spencer this week relaunched itself with an upbeat brand identity which the group hopes will help revive its fortunes. The new Marks & Spencer logo will represent the brand on packaging, labelling, promotional material and in stores. The...
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Evolution of a whole new look
Marks and Spencer will revamp its branding and packaging across its entire food and non food product range by the end of the year. The company announced this week that the St Michael brand would disappear from some goods and feature only on the...
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Joanne Denney
Chief executive, IGD Rising through the ranks at Marks and Spencer, Denney spent time in commercial store management, learning about retailing at the sharp end. She then moved to the head office training department where, as training manager, she...
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Chain holds on to its share of UK food; no plans to abandon US operations In store revamp set for autumn Marks and Spencer this week confirmed expectations with the announcement of a slump in annual pretax profit of nearly 50% to £634.6m before...
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Marks & Spencer is expanding its franchise operation into the Czech Republic. It follows the announcement two weeks ago that Tesco is buying two retailing businesses in the Czech Republic and Slovakia from the US-based Kmart Corporation. The 13,000...
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SALVESEN DEPOT OPENS
Christian Salvesen has officially opened its £2.3m shared user produce depot in Evesham, Worcester. Among its customers are Asda, the Co-op, Fyffes, Marks and Spencer, Safeway, Somerfield, and Tesco. It has the capacity to handle more than a...
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Green out of picture as M&S works to recover
Financier Philip Green has announced he has no intention of bidding for Marks & Spencer. The announcement ends weeks of speculation he was stalking the company with the intention of launching a takeover. Green said he did reserve the right to make...
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City puts frighteners on talk of Tesco/M&S link
Tesco bosses have refused to deny a possible tie up with Marks & Spencer even after shareholders saw the value of the former's stocks plummet this week. The continued speculation saw M&S stocks climb as high as 332.5p in the early part of the week...