Marks & Spencer news and analysis – Page 78
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M&S unveils new sites for Simply Food
Marks and Spencer is sticking with a larger format as it announces further sites for the expansion of its Simply Food convenience chain. It has sacrificed extended opening hours for increased turnover generated by square footage at a proposed...
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Barton's key trading role
Safeway has recruited one of Marks & Spencer's key former executives as commercial director for produce, meat and bakery. Peter Barton's position represents a new role within the multiple's trading division. As well as managing trading...
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M&S looks to SCOT to free up staff
M&S LOOKS TO SCOT TO FREE UP STAFFMarks & Spencer is to trial a series of new self-service tills allowing shoppers to checkout their own goods so they can avoid queuing to pay for their shopping.Known as SCOT – self checkout tills –...
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A case of the blues...which means NPD, and hands on fun
But retailer behaviour is also crucial. Glanbia supplies to most of the major multiples in the UK, including Asda, Safeway, Somerfield, Kwik Save, Iceland, Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer. Development work at its groundbreaking Malpas Centre of Cheese...
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NEWS BY ANYONE'S STANDARDSÂ
from John Maxwell-Jones, Burgess Stores, Goudhurst, Kent Sir; I was interested to read two news items in the latest edition of The Grocer (August 31) Â Marks and Spencer actively switching to free range eggs for its prepared meals and the story...
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M&S introduce new sportswear range
Marks and Spencer has unveiled its new range of sportswear that will be sold under the name View From in 125 of the retailers stores nationwide.M&S bought the brand from former Olympic athlete Brendan Foster in June. The product...
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M&S buyer calls for more
A leading retailer's fruit buyer is calling for increased production from UK growers. Speaking at an industry workshop Marks and Spencer fruit buyer Stuart Stubbins said English raspberry growers needed to grow more produce to meet demand. He...
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Asda has been voted the nation's favourite store for the sec
The ACNielsen Homescan survey of 6,630 households in May quizzed consumers about where they liked to shop and asked them to choose between Asda, the Co-operative Group, Kwik Save, Iceland, Marks and Spencer, Morrisons, Safeway, Sainsbury,...
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WH Smith works with M&S for slicker food to go ops
Marks and Spencer and WH Smith have cut back on trials of M&S food to go at WHSmith branches to focus on making operations slicker.
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McMahon appointment completes RHM senior management
RHM has recruited Ian McMahon as chief operating officer for customer solutions, one of its three operating divisions. It supplies chilled ready meals, cakes, desserts and preserves to top retailers such as Marks and Spencer, and burger buns to...
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Unilever and William Reed Exhibitions have joined the Associ
Marks and Spencer has extended its home delivery facility to 28 stores in central London. Customers buying over £50 of food can have it delivered free with a £4 charge for smaller baskets. Sainsbury has opened its third railway station Local...
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M&S goes for own organic accreditation
Marks and Spencer has introduced its own accreditation mark as it relaunches its organic ranges to appeal to aspirational shoppers of added value foods. Existing UK certification logos, like the Soil Association mark, have been banned from...
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Fair' price as M&S finally sheds Kings
Marks and Spencer has finally exited the US market with the sale of its east coast supermarket chain, Kings, in a $160m (£101m) deal. The buyer, privately owned D'Agostino Supermarkets, stepped in with an offer for the 29-strong chain after...
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Waitrose collects the top Brammy accolade
Sainsbury and Marks and Spencer battled it out at this year's Brammy Awards but Waitrose pipped them both to the title of best multiple retailer. The Brammys, which celebrates the contribution of retailers, manufacturers, caterers and the media to...
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Wharfside M&S
Eight years after turning down the opportunity to open at Canary Wharf, Marks and Spencer has signed up to take a 12,000 sq ft store at Jubilee Place, the 89,500 sq ft development under construction under the new Heron Quays building. Lunson...
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Tesco is to open a standalone Express c-store in East Witter
Sainsbury is launching a car insurance product as it powers up its financial services to ward off competitors such as Tesco, Asda and Marks and Spencer. The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs committee has criticised DEFRA management as incapable...
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City in optimistic mood despite slide at Iceland
Elaine Watson Marks and Spencer and Safeway defied forecasts of a downturn, but Iceland slipped badly in figures released this week. At Big Food Group sturdy first quarter performances by Booker and Woodward Foodservice offset a 5.8% slide in...
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TABLE TALK
Marks and Spencer is a national institution, a business that as a Brit I always felt proud of. It seemed not that long ago that M&S led the way, certainly in the food and wine stakes. Thank goodness it has decided to remedy some of its most...
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TABLE TALK
Backing Britain seems to be the right thing to do at the moment, especially with the French cancer that is eating into our beef industry. Of all the major high street retailers, Marks and Spencer in my mind conjures up everything British. And yet...
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Bogof's week
There were a few surprises on the opening day of the ECR Europe conference in Glasgow, not least the shocking sight of Unilever's Antony Burgmans and Marks and Spencer's Luc Vandevelde striding on to the stage in kilts. I am glad to say the kilts ...