Features - Marks & Spencer

M&S Deserves Praise For Just Saying No To Discounting: Gadfly

The crucial Christmas trading season is shaping up to have been a brutal one for Britain's non-food retailers. Next Plc's sales gain was welcome, but ha...

The Famous M&S Sandwich Starts To Curl Around The Edges: Gadfly

It's one step forward, two steps back for Steve Rowe, chief executive of Marks & Spencer Group Plc. Just when there are signs of improvement in...

M&S Dumps Superstars, Bets On Middle England: Gadfly

When Marks & Spencer Group Plc unveiled its autumn/winter fashion collection last week, for once there was no single superstar item created to &quo...

Ocado's Ideas for Happiness At Home Mean Problems For M&S: Gadfly

Ocado hasn't been able to get over its strategy obstacles. So it's going under. The internet-only grocer has been trying in vain to clinch a distributio...

M&S Blows Its Chance To Face Up To Sales-Slump Reality: Gadfly

These are not just store closures, these are M&S store closures. Marks & Spencer Group Plc has finally admitted that with a slump in clo...

The British Clothing Slump Makes M&S's Silence Deafening: Gadfly

Been shopping for clothes lately? No? Neither has anyone else. That's why a string of U.K. retailers, including Next, Sainsbury, John Lewis and even Pri...

M&S's Badly-Needed Changes Won't Come Cheap for CEO Rowe: Gadfly

These are not just job cuts, these are M&S job cuts. Marks & Spencer is to ax about 500 jobs at its London head office, and an announcem...

M&S's Retreat from Abroad Can Include a Domestic Clearout: Gadfly

For Marks & Spencer, abandoning Europe is back in fashion. Investors should be grateful, but really, they should look to clean up the domestic clos...

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