Marks & Spencer

George Davies quits Per Una role at M&S

Fashion entrepreneur George Davies has quit as chairman of the Per Una fashion brand he built for Marks & Spencer.The multimillionaire Davies, who also dreamed up the Next label and the George brand for Asda, intends to step...

Marks & Spencer to hold 20 percent off sale

LONDON (Reuters) - Marks & Spencer Group, will hold a "one-day 20 percent off sale" on Wednesday to stimulate flagging revenue, The Financial Times newspaper reported. The paper also said on Wednesday it had seen data from...

M&S turns to '20% off' for a day sale tactic

By Tom Braithwaite and Elizabeth Rigby Marks and Spencer is turning to a tactic it has not used since the business was in the doldrums in 2004, in a sign of its anxiety about the retail climate. The retailer will tomorrow hold...

Barclays left thoroughly shaken

If you think big City investors were upset about Marks & Spencer’s boardroom reshuffle, you should hear them on the subject of Barclays. I can’t repeat some of the comments in a family column. But take it from me, they are mad...

R.I.P. VPL! Say goodbye to your visible panty line with selection of the best invisible knickers

As Debenhams' £4 'invisible knickers' fly off the shelves, we roadtest the rest - from top to bottom It's been the curse of women throughout the ages - the dreaded VPL (Visible Panty Line). Left, Marks & Spencer's waist cincher...

USD and JPY continue to bide their time in narrowing ranges

Is bond rally spelling trouble for risk appetite? TICs data shows huge move into USD in September. MAJOR HEADLINES – PREVIOUS SESSION US Weekly ABC Consumer Confidence fell to -52 vs. -49 expected and vs. -50 the prior week New...

Premier agrees to pay £4.9m creditor fee

Premier Foods, which owns Erin, Chivers and Gateaux, is paying a £4.9m fee to its creditors to postpone a key stress test of its bank loans and has scrapped its interim share dividend. Britain's biggest food manufacturer has a...

Top eight ways to go green on the cheap

Sarah Fister Gale, Greenbiz.com, BusinessGreen, Wednesday 19 November 2008 at 00:15:00 From helping employees visualise the impact of their waste to turning it into a revenue stream, innovative companies and consultants offer...

"Mainframes don't de-dupe": Shoden shows 'em how it's done

The mainframe world has not so far gained from the various benefits of data de-duplication during backup and replication; but Shoden Data Systems' solution, launched last week, plugs this gap. [Read More...]

Marks ? Spencer to cut 20 per cent of all prices on Thursday

Marks ? Spencer is cutting the price of everything in its stores by 20 per cent tomorrow in the latest sign that high street retailers are taking drastic action to attract shoppers in the run up to Christmas.

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