Marks and Spencer

M&S appoints new chief strategy and transformation director

Marks and Spencer has appointed Katie Bickerstaffe as its new chief strategy and transformation director. Bickerstaffe is currently a non-executive…

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Wilko appoints Jerome Saint-Marc as its first CEO

Home and garden needs retailer Wilko appointed Jerome Saint-Marc as its first ever CEO to help “lead the business forward”.…

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UK supermarkets see ‘disappointing’ sales growth in January

Supermarket sales grew by only 0.7% in January 2020, down from 3.3% in 2019, according to new data released from…

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Laura Ashley CEO steps down

Laura Ashley has announced that Kwan Cheong Ng will retire as the executive director and chief executive officer of the…

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Boohoo more valuable than M&S – a sea-change encapsulated

From a purely journalistic standpoint it is now a de facto cliché to refer to Marks and Spencer as the…

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Moody’s downgrades M&S credit score to negative

Moody’s has downgraded Marks and Spencer’s outlook from stable to negative after it reported a 0.7% decline in revenues in…

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How retailers can stand out from the crowd in 2020

The start of the year is always a good moment to reflect on what the months ahead – indeed decade…

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Who would have thought skinny jeans could be anyone’s undoing?

It’s not often that the business pages give you a good belly laugh. But today we have the spectacle of…

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M&S reports fall in festive sales revenues

Marks and Spencer has reported a 0.7% decline in revenues in its third quarter of the current financial year to…

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M&S partners with six start-ups through Factory Founder scheme

Marks and Spencer has announced it has partnered with six start-ups, as it marks the first anniversary of the M&S…

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