All Marks & Spencer articles – Page 115
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Retailers wage Sales war
Major retailers including Marks & Spencer have launched discount promotions this weekend in a bid to compete for hard-pressed shoppers.
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Economic recovery in jeopardy from planning system, say leading retailers
Britain’s economic recovery is being put in jeopardy by a “creaking” planning system which is frustrating investment and excluding many businesses, a group of leading retailers said.
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General stores win out over the grocers
As hordes of shoppers flocked to the opening of Westfield Stratford City, showing that willingness to spend has not entirely evaporated, general retailers ended the week up overall.
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M&S brand to challenge rival supermarkets
Marks & Spencer’s pilot new format stores, launched this week, aim to distinguish between the identity of its fashion brands such as Per Una, Autograph and Limited as well as emphasise the uniqueness of its offer in food.
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Opinion
M&S’s strongest brand is Marks & Spencer
An £8.99 jar of peaches in moscato or a £4.99 bag of pasta might sound more at home in Harrods food hall than in Stratford E15.
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Long queues form as Westfield Stratford City open its doors
Marks & Spencer chief executive Marc Bolland opened proceedings at the new Westfield Stratford City shopping centre this morning declaring that the M&S store will “carry the torch for the best of UK retailing”.
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In pictures: M&S shows off first new-look store
Marks & Spencer has unveiled the first in-store changes initiated by chief executive Marc Bolland designed to better present brands, showcase the retailer’s exclusivity and make stores more easily shoppable.
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Marks & Spencer is to invest £600m in store revamps
Marks & Spencer is to invested £600m into revamping its stores.
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Analysis
VIDEO: M&S unveils new autumn TV ads
Marks & Spencer has unveiled its new womenswear autumn TV ads which will be screened on ITV1 from tonight (September 7).
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Marks & Spencer strengthens brand marketing team
Marks & Spencer has bolstered its marketing team to help achieve chief executive Marc Bolland’s aim of turning some of its ‘labels into real brands’.
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Shopper’s thrifty approach is just pants
Marks & Spencer’s pants are considered by millions to be the best, and some people will go to great lengths to keep them safe.
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Big names suffer amid tough trading concerns
Shop stocks were out of favour in the wake of a profit warning from Topps Tiles, with bearish notes on some of the sector’s biggest names and general heebie-jeebies about trading.
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In pictures: M&S drafts in new celebs to front brand ad campaigns
Marks & Spencer has drafted in new celebrity faces to front print, in-store and online campaigns which focus for the first time on brands including Autograph.
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M&S launches second phase of sustainable cotton project
Marks & Spencer has launched the second phase of its Better Cotton project designed to help improve the lives of cotton farmers and their families.
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Opinion
Strictly come M&S
Marks & Spencer’s move into the world of TV light entertainment looks, at first sight, a questionable strategy.
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M&S becomes exclusive fashion partner for The X Factor
Marks & Spencer has been named the exclusive fashion partner of The X Factor, the search-for-a-star TV show.
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Analysis
Clearing up and moving on
A week after the shocking riots, retailers reflect on events that put their stores and staff on the front line
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Birmingham looters may receive shop bans
Birmingham rioters could be banned from the city’s shops for an undecided length of time after looters caused carnage there last week.
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M&S names partner to build multichannel platform
Marks & Spencer has appointed technology firm SapientNitro to create its own multichannel platform as it bids to increase multichannel sales to between £800 and £1bn by 2014.