Marks & Spencer news and analysis – Page 75
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White is the colour
Marks and Spencer has announced a new addition to its poultry range.After the successful launch of the Oakham Gold chicken, M&S is introducing Oakham White, a slower growing bird, raised free range and in barns.Labels will carry the...
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Marks’s quality is its key advantage
Shoppers love M& S food, according to our exclusive research. But range and convenience remain serious issues, says Liz HamsonIf the Marks and Spencer board is feeling depressed ahead of the dire interim results it is expected to post...
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M&S set to take Gala all-English
Marks and Spencer is pledging to stock 100% English Gala by the 2005 season.The retailer claims to have grown volumes of the UK fruit from 40% to 95% in just two years, but is now aiming higher.Annitta Engel, top fruit technologist...
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M&S recruits for Christmas
Marks and Spencer is to recruit 12,500 extra employees during the run-up to and over the busy Christmas period. An in-store poster campaign asks applicants to call their local M&S for a phone interview. This will include a multiple-choice...
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RFID makes M&S supplies fresher
Marks and Spencer says it now sells fresher food following the introduction of RFID technology in its supply chain in August 2002.IT director Stuart Senior said it had tagged 2.5 million of the plastic crates it uses to ship fresh and...
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M&S: best tomatoes are British
British tomatoes are monopolising the shelves of Marks & Spencer because the store believes the fruit to be the best there is, according to its salad specialist Jim Monaghan.Speaking at the Tomato Conference in Coventry, Monaghan explained...
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M&S specialities
M&S has launched a new range of speciality British cheeses. The ‘From the deli’ range is made up of five cheeses ranging from a Cornish Tiskey to a Dovedale Blue and is available in 100 stores, said cheese technologist John Pearson. Each features...
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Waitrose in pole position for disposals
Waitrose is probably in with the best chance of picking up divested stores given the restrictions placed on the big three and the possible barriers facing Marks and Spencer.Before it can table a renewed bid, Morrisons must provide...
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Despatch points
The major grocery chains in Northern Ireland are The Co-operative Group, Iceland, Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury, Safeway and Tesco. Our mystery shoppers do not visit Iceland and M&S, so how do they measure up?Iceland stores in NI are...
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M&S has high hopes of credit card scheme
Marks and Spencer Money expects to sign 5 million customers to its new &more joint credit and loyalty card – more than all its rival retailers’ cards put together.Group chief executive officer Roger Holmes said the conversion of 2.3 million...
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M&S builds platform for growers
Marks and Spencer is rolling out its Meet the Farmer programme, in which farmers and growers have the chance to sound out the views of more than a million consumers in total.The rollout into 25 flagship stores over the next six month comes...
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M&S rolls out new credit card
Marks and Spencer has announced that its combined credit card and loyalty programme – the “&more” credit Card – will go live nationally on October 6. The “&more” credit card can be used in all outlets which accept credit card payments. From...
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In Profile: Q&A with Nigel Hardy, Trading Director for Multiple Grocers, Gallaher
What is your background? I worked for 10 years at Marks and Spencer. One of my first roles was as assistant manager at the store in Northumberland...
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M&S service aims for easy celebrating
Marks & Spencer is rolling out a party service to stores to capitalise on the popularity of its Christmas ordering service.Called ‘Leave it to us…’ it is geared towards customers ordering food for special occasions, from informal suppers to...
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A fun factory delivers
I pray thee leave, call home the heart you gave me….’ Billy Dobinson, a customer assistant at Marks & Spencer’s Metro Centre, is reading aloud from a book of love poems. Every now and then he stops reading and unashamedly plugs his Valentine’s Day...
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M&S to open more Lifestore outlets
Marks & Spencer has confirmed it is to extend its new Lifestores concept – even before the pilot outlet has opened. The chain is spending £60m on its Lifestore concept where homewares are grouped together by ideas such as “rest” and...
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Thompson’s back after a Gap
Anthony Thompson has rejoined Marks & Spencer as its director of childrenswear.Thompson joined US fashion retailer Gap in 2000 as senior vice president Europe, responsible for building the brand in the UK, France and Germany. His...
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Geest uses tags for M&S lines
Geest is rolling out radio frequency identification tagging technology across all factories supplying Marks and Spencer as part of a radical drive to improve supply chain efficiency.All trays heading for M&S are being equipped with tags...
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The Saturday Essay
>>let’s get close to farmers – Paul Willgoss, head of agriculture and technical manager of protein foods, M&SAt Marks & Spencer our customers’ interest in where their food comes from and how it is produced has never been greater. Who...