All Marks & Spencer articles – Page 150
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News
M&S victorious in stolen laptop data protection row
Marks & Spencer has avoided a courtroom showdown and substantial fine after winning an appeal against the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over a data leak.
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News
M&S hails bag charging scheme a success
Marks & Spencer’s controversial 5p food carrier bag charge has resulted in an 80 per cent drop in the number of bags used since the scheme’s introduction in May.
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Opinion
What's Next?
Next could surprise the City when it updates on its second quarter performance next week.
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News
M&S slashes men's suit to £24
Marks & Spencer slashed the price of selected men’s suits yesterday to only 24 as it started its summer Sale.
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Opinion
Who’s the greendaddy?
At a gathering last week to celebrate the significant anniversary of a leading store design company, a very senior retailer remarked that he was environmentally aware because having a driver to ferry him around meant he was car-sharing and therefore green.
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Opinion
The Retail Week – July 11, 2008
A domineering leader with no regard for corporate governance, a business recording a terrible performance, confusion about plans for the chairmanship… no, not M&S, but Sports Direct.
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Analysis
Ground control: How Marks & Spencer ensures fair trade really is fair
It’s easy to talk a good game on conditions in the supply chain, but how can you ensure it works in practice? Katie Kilgallen finds out how Marks & Spencer ensures fair trade really is fair
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News
Rose reigns as shareholders back promotion to chairman
Marks & Spencer shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favour of electing chief executive Sir Stuart Rose to the position of executive chairman at Wednesday’s AGM.
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Opinion
Marks is no Primark – nor should it be
Sir Stuart Rose may have found himself in the unusual position of whispering a prayer of thanks to Primark today.
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News
Lots of sandwiches and a few spats: M&S AGM sketch
They came, they ate his sandwiches and they voted for him.
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NewsM&S to up PoS security with system roll-out
Marks Spencer is to introduce a new IT security system at the point of sale (PoS).
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News
Waitrose hiring signals convenience push
Waitrose is understood to have hired a head of convenience as it gears up to take on the likes of Sainsbury’s Local and M&S Simply Food.
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Marks & Spencer pulls out of Taiwan
Marks & Spencer is to close all its stores in Taiwan after just 14 months of trading in the country, dealing another blow to the embattled retailer.
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Rose faces investor rebellion
More than a quarter of Marks & Spencer investors could this week abstain or vote against Sir Stuart Rose’s elevation to executive chairman.
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NewsWorse to come
As M S like-for-like sales plunge, fears grow industry may never fully recover from downturn
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Opinion
Competitiveness is key for M&S
No apologies for returning to the biggest story of the week, the trials of Marks & Spencer. After all, food is at the root of its problems.
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Opinion
The Retail Week – July 4, 2008
The magic has well and truly evaporated from the retail Camelot created at Marks & Spencer by Sir Stuart Rose.
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Opinion
This is not just the market…
He may have been the coldest fish to have occupied a senior role in retail in recent memory, but it’s hard not to feel a degree of sympathy for Steven Esom over his spectacular fall from grace.
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News
Rose may be forced to step down
Marks & Spencer chief executive Sir Stuart Rose may be forced to step down or resign after yesterday’s shock profit warning wiped 1.2 billion off the value of the retailer.