Marks and Spencer
This coverage analyses Marks and Spencer’s strategy, performance, and influence within the UK retail market. Reporting highlights store operations, product innovation, online developments, financial results, marketing campaigns, and leadership changes. With a focus on commercial impact and competitive dynamics, it offers insights for professionals managing grocery, fashion, and homeware retailing at scale.
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Jun- 2021 -23 JuneDepartment Stores
M&S to focus on equality with new lingerie line
Marks and Spencer has announced the launch of its new ‘Nothing Neutral About It’ lingerie range. The new range is part of the retailer’s mission to be more inclusive in the lingerie space, which it says was fuelled by the “global conversation on racial inequality, following the horrific death of…
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17 JuneClothing & Shoes
Clarks to launch six new kids shop-in-shops
Clarks has announced that it will be launching six new kids shop-in shops from June 2021. The footwear retailer claimed that the new stores were in response to seeing an increased consumer demand when stores reopened in April. The spaces will be located at John Lewis stores throughout the UK,…
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4 JuneSupermarkets
M&S unveils new cafe concept at Solihull Sears store
Marks and Spencer has opened its first new look M&S Café at its new Solihull Sears store as part of its “transformative store renewal programme”. Located at Sears Retail Park in Solihull, the new café is a “test and learn” renewal concept in hospitality for the retailer. The new format…
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May- 2021 -26 MaySupermarkets
M&S to close sites amid £201m loss
Marks and Spencer has swung to a statutory £201m loss in its financial results for the year ended 3 April 2021, down from a profit of £67m a year before, which it primarily attributed to lockdowns and tiered pandemic restrictions over the period. This represents a 31.5% drop in total…
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24 MaySupermarkets
M&S to buy more goods from EU amidst NI border disruption
Marks and Spencer will reportedly buy more food from EU countries as the group looks to “reshape its supply chain” amidst struggles with the Northern Irish border. According to The Telegraph, M&S has plans to also source more goods from the Continent as well as Ireland and Northern Ireland, after…
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20 MaySupermarkets
Moto Hospitality appoints retail director
Moto Hospitality has announced the appointment of Nikki Rogers as its first retail director, reporting directly to Nick Tatum, the company’s chief customer officer. Rogers previously worked for Blakemore as proposition and food solutions director and before that held various senior leadership roles at BP. Moto is one the UK’s…
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4 MayFeatures
Has social media freed Cuthbert the Caterpillar?
For such small creatures, two caterpillars have kicked up a particularly large fuss this April. An intellectual property case turned social media frenzy, Marks and Spencers’ legal action against Aldi over its Cuthbert the Caterpillar cake has cut open the multiple layers involved in copyright infringement for all to see.…
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4 MaySupermarkets
M&S names Andrew Shaw as head of BWS
Marks and Spencer has announced the appointment of Andrew Shaw as the group’s head of beers, wines, and spirits (BWS). Joining alongside a number of senior commercial appointments, Shaw will report directly to Lizzy Massey, ambient trading director at M&S. Shaw will be tasked with strengthening the company’s transformation plan,…
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Apr- 2021 -26 AprilPeople Moves
Former Sainsbury’s CEO joins the Snappy Group
The Snappy Group, an e-commerce grocery and hospitality technology company, has named former Sainsbury’s chief executive Justin King as a senior advisor to the firm. King joins the group with the vision of acting on the board as non-executive director following a recently launched series A fundraising round that he…
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16 AprilSupermarkets
M&S sues Aldi over Colin the Caterpillar ‘look-alike’
Marks and Spencers has started legal action against Aldi over its Cuthbert the Caterpillar cake, which the retailer argues infringes on its Colin the Caterpillar cake trademark. The supermarket chain lodged an intellectual property claim with the High Court earlier this week, noting that the similarity between the two products…
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