Marks & Spencer news and analysis – Page 79
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M&S takes top meat prize
Marks and Spencer scooped the top prize at this year's British Meat Awards for its perfect roast lamb'. It walked off with the Product of Excellence award after the product took first prize in the lamb category. The prize for beef product of the...
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Asda is creating 1,250 warehouse and driver jobs and buildin
Marks & Spencer has paid out £60m in bonuses to staff. Chief executive Luc Vandevelde picked up £1.4m for meeting the company's "stretching financial targets". Irish ingredients and consumer foods giant Kerry Group said it was on track to deliver...
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M&S seeks out bigger stores for its Simply Food format
Anne Bruce Marks and Spencer is to continue putting its Simply Food format into bigger stores. This is because the M&S food range does not fit comfortably with a convenience store footprint. Food business unit director Justin King said a number...
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M&S tech offers to cut the cost of bank chargebacks
Marks and Spencer has tied up with technology provider Retail Decisions to market a system to help retailers cut the cost of bank chargebacks resulting from fraud or error. When a transaction is queried by a card issuer or consumer because of a...
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Tastylicious frozen portions create new babyfood sector
EXCLUSIVE Sian Harrington A groundbreaking alternative to jarred and canned baby food has been launched under the Tastylicious brand. The brainchild of former Marks and Spencer senior food technologist Sally Preston, Tastylicious is a frozen meal...
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Tag project gets M&S fit for online food
M&S says its supply chain reform project will cut distribution costs as it prepares for a full home shopping service on food. M&S already has a boardroom lunch delivery service, and admits selling food online is a gap it plans to plug. A...
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m arks and spencer
City thumbs up to M&S's performance Analysts agreed Marks and Spencer's dark days are over as it released its latest trading statement this week. Like-for-like sales were up 10.6% on last year while food sales increased 6%, or 4.5% on a...
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Retailers: ready for summer business, come rain or shine
Whether it's heatwave or washout, retailers are preparing summer ranges to cover all eventualities and catering for parties of all sizes and tastes Marks & Spencer takes a pragmatic approach to the barbecue. "As the British weather is so uncertain,...
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Tags will track chilled produce from source
Marks and Spencer has said it is putting the finishing touches on infrastructure for a market leading electronically controlled chilled supply chain. It is reaching the end of a five year period of tests on electronic tags on all chilled trays,...
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M&S looks to talent of long-term unemployed
Marks and Spencer is taking advantage of a government initiative to find potential managers among the long-term unemployed. The Ambition:Retail scheme part of the New Deal employment programme aims to equip people with the skills for...
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Princes Foods is introducing four new steak products to its
Juice brand Tropicana is aiming to drive sales through an exclusive promotion with the Daily Mail next Saturday (February 23). Readers will get a free single serve bottle with every issue. Marks and Spencer has started stocking a rarely...
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M&S £20m Cardiff sale
Marks & Spencer has sold its former satellite store in Cardiff for more than £20m. The sale, to a private Northern Irish investor, shows a yield of 6%. Acquired from Littlewoods by M&S as part of a 19-store portfolio, the 96,000 sq ft unit in Queen...
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Whistlestop M&S Simply Food Sainsbury's Local
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Fifty new products plus from Marks
Marks and Spencer is continuing to extend its grocery offer with the chain, which has long relied on its food aisles to pull in shoppers, adding more than 50 new products to its repertoire. These include additions to M&S's healthy-eating Count On...
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M&S steams ahead with plans for railway Simply Food sites
Exclusive Marks and Spencer plans to open at least 40 Simply Food stores on railway station concourses this year as it looks to accelerate the rollout of its new c-store format. The chain is steaming into railway stations in partnership with SSP,...
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Simply Food makes its railway debut
Marks & Spencer has opened the first of four trial Simply Food c-stores at railway sites. The store opened on Thursday at Liverpool Street station in London, and will be followed by stores at Victoria station due to open this Thursday, and one at...
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Marks and Spencer has sold its US clothing subsidiary Brooks
Ahold's operating profit rose 21.7% to 667.2m euros on sales up 12.6% to 15.5bn euros for the 12 weeks to October 7. The Weston family, through its Wittington Investments arm, has taken full control of Fortnum & Mason after buying out the...
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M&S wheels in mobile bakeries
Marks and Spencer is experimenting with wheel-in convenience solutions in its foodhalls now they are proving popular in its Simply Food c-stores. M&S started to introduce modular in-store bakeoffs on wheels in its key stores in September and now...
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Vandevelde: glass is definitely half full
Marks and Spencer investigated the possibility of relaxing its policy of only selling own label food but decided against it, chairman Luc Vandevelde revealed this week. Speaking exclusively to The Grocer, he said M&S did some work on the...
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M&S anchor by Thames
Marks and Spencer has exchanged on the agreement for a lease at developer St George's Imperial Wharf project in London. The M&S deal and another for a major hotel are the first transactions at the 32-acre brownfield site by the River Thames next to...