All Marks & Spencer articles – Page 8
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Prospect Analysis
Marks & Spencer (Financials)
Marks & Spencer reported a strong uplift in profits over the year to end-March 2022 (FY2021), bolstered by sales growth across both the clothing & home and food divisions.
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Prospect Analysis
Ecommerce at Marks & Spencer
MS2 division brings together online, data and digital trading capabilities under a single team trading at a faster pace, with range and availability adapted to the online model.
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Prospect Analysis
Customer and marketing at Marks & Spencer
M&S has faced criticism in the past for a lack of clarity around the demographic and age profile of its customer. Restoring broader customer appeal is now a key priority.
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Prospect Analysis
Supply chain at Marks & Spencer
As part of its accelerated transformation strategy, M&S is reducing costs and improving stock flow by re-engineering the end-to-end supply chain across clothing and home. And in a bid to take control of its end-to-end food supply chain, in July 2022 the retailer announced it was buying logistics provider Gist in a £145m cash deal.
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Opinion
‘Green is the colour of money as eco credentials shape financier sentiment’
Sustainability has been climbing up the retail industry’s agenda for years and a raft of recent financing deals shows it has now well and truly taken centre stage.
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Deep dive
Deep dive: Understanding your new target shoppers – their favourite stores revealed
Where and how will the post-pandemic consumer want to shop? Retail Week unpacks the data.
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News
Marks & Spencer launches tech recruitment drive to turbocharge online growth
Marks & Spencer has begun a recruitment push to find 85 tech specialists following a consumer shift online during the Covid pandemic.
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Opinion
Angus Thirlwell: ‘Forget the caterpillars – retail needs collaboration, not conflict’
Three years ago, I was spitting chocolate feathers. Customers on social media began alerting me to a suspiciously similar range of chocolate slabs that had appeared in Waitrose.
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News
Marks & Spencer reshapes its food division’s top team
Marks & Spencer has made changes to its food leadership team through a raft of promotions and moves.
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News
Mars food chief joins Marks & Spencer board
Marks & Spencer has appointed Mars Food global president Fiona Dawson to its board, bringing “cutting-edge” consumer and brand experience.
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News
M&S to open new dotcom warehouse for ‘more digital future’
Marks & Spencer is to add an online warehouse to its Bradford distribution centre as it gears up for a “more digital future”.
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Prospect Analysis
Marks & Spencer (Outlook)
With the pandemic having spurred the retailer on to address long-standing weaknesses through the launch of the Never the Same Again programme, management says the business has now moved “beyond fixing the basics to forge a reshaped M&S”.
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Gallery
In pictures: Primark, JD Sports and John Lewis lure back shoppers for reopening
As non-essential retail reopens its doors in England on April 12, Retail Week visits key shopping locations to gauge retail offers and shopper appetite.
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News
John Lewis boss Wicks lays down gauntlet to M&S and Next with Anyday launch
John Lewis boss Pippa Wicks believes the retailer can wrestle sales from high street rivals Marks & Spencer and Next through the launch of its new entry-level brand Anyday.
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Analysis
China boycotts H&M: Will Western brands have to choose between ethics and profits?
Tensions between China and the West reached boiling point last week as several countries, including the UK, imposed sanctions over human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims and retail found itself caught in the crossfire.
