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Marks And Spencer Vendors To Pay For Refurbishments

October 5, 2011 By Retail News From the Guardian Leave a Comment

Marks and Spencer has raised eyebrows by asking its clothing suppliers to stump up millions of pounds towards its expensive store refit programme. Last week Mar

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M&S Goes For Tailoring In £600m Overhaul

May 30, 2011 By Retail News From the Guardian 1 Comment

Marks & Spencer is to match the food and clothing ranges in its British shops to the wealth, age and ethnicity of the local area, as part of a £600m overhaul to make its stores “more inspiring” places to shop.

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M&S To Open 10 More Stores In India, Will Focus On Delhi

May 28, 2011 By economic times retail news Leave a Comment

British retail major Marks & Spencer has announced plans to open 10 new stores in India over the next year in collaboration with its partner, Reliance Retail. M&S chief executive Marc Bolland said

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High Street Sales Plummet With The Temperature

December 21, 2010 By Retail News From the Guardian Leave a Comment

The arctic weather is estimated to have cost retailers up to £750m in lost sales as new figures show the number of shoppers who ventured out at the weekend was down 20% on last year, with Wales and London hardest hit

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Marks & Spencer’s Spring 2011 Collection: Back To The 1970s

November 24, 2010 By Retail News From the Guardian Leave a Comment

It was back to the 1970s at Marks & Spencer today as the retailer unveiled its trends for spring 2011. With rails of maxi hemlines, swirling prints and A-line denim skirts, next year’s Marks and Spencer wardrobe has a whiff of the

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Dutch Fashion Firm Under Fire Over Window Display

November 22, 2010 By Retail News From the Guardian Leave a Comment

Sex sells, or so one Dutch male fashion firm hopes. But Suit Supply’s provocative – some say almost pornographic – “Shameless” advertising campaign has prompted cries of “shame” over a window display at

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Comet Boss Believes Less-Is-More Philosophy Will Beat Best Buy

November 19, 2010 By Retail News From the Guardian Leave a Comment

One store is already grabbing shoppers’ attention – a whopping great hangar-style branch of the US electrical chain Best Buy, which opened its doors at the end of October. It is one of 200 such outlets planned

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Bolland Looks To Middle England And Overseas For New Blueprint For Marks & Spencer

November 7, 2010 By Retail News From the Guardian Leave a Comment

New Marks & Spencer boss Marc Bolland is set to unveil his blueprint for the retailer next week – with plans to devote much more shop space to selling homewares and ambitious plans to expand overseas, especially in Europe and India

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M&S Steps Out For Christmas Ad – Video

November 3, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Marks & Spencer has launched its Christmas marketing push with a dance-themed TV ad featuring Peter Kay set to the Bee Gees’ You Should Be Dancing. The first stage of the TV ad campaign, which breaks on

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Marks & Spencer Plans To Re-Enter European Markets

November 1, 2010 By Retail News From the Guardian Leave a Comment

Nearly a decade after Marks & Spencer shut up shop in mainland Europe, the retailer is poised to return to the continent by buying back the stores it sold at the time. Britain’s biggest clothing retailer is understood to

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