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Marks and Spencer sees profits fall
May 20th, 2014
Marks and Spencer has reported a 3.9% fall in underlying annual profit to £623m, the third consecutive year its profits have fallen. The retailer also said that group sales rose by 2.7% to £10.3bn in the year to 29 ...
Longstanding Marks & Spencer GC announces retirement
August 31st, 2016
One of the longest-serving leaders in the UK in-house legal sector has decided it’s time to retire. Marks & Spencer general counsel Robert Ivens is retiring from the company he has called home for more than 30 years. Mr ...
Marks & Spencer is going downmarket to try and rescue its clothing business
May 25th, 2016
Marks & Spencer put out another bad set of results on Wednesday— something that has become a tradition for the struggling retailer. Annual sales at M&S were up 2.4% to £10.4 billion ($15.2 billion) but pre-tax profit collapsed by 19.5% ...
M&S to close Clothing & Home business and continue to grow in Food; to close loss making shops in 10 markets
November 8th, 2016
Marks & Spencer has released today the Half Year Results for 26 Weeks Ended 1 October 2016 and Strategic Update. Summary Good progress against strategic priorities set out in May. As expected, underlying profits down in the half due ...
Top 50 most loved brands in Europe 2016
May 26th, 2016
Tech giant Apple is the UK and Europe’s most loved brand and dominates social conversation, according to a Brand Love List report launched today by enterprise social analytics company NetBase. Love, best, great, perfect and awesome were the top ...
Next’s profits set to overtake Marks & Spencer after 12% annual rise
March 21st, 2014
The decline of Marks & Spencer was again brutally underlined on Thursday when Next reported soaring profits that are almost certain to have beaten its venerable high street rival for the first time. After bets on “braver” fashion and ...
Spreadsheet fashions accounting error at M&S
July 13th, 2016
Veteran high street retailer Marks and Spencer (M&S) has suffered the embarrassment of having to re-issue its first quarter results just hours after the initial release, when analysts’ questions revealed a double counting error, reversing the previously positive news ...
Brexit: All you need to know for UK’s EU referendum
June 13th, 2016
What is happening? A referendum is being held on Thursday, 23 June to decide whether Britain should leave or remain in the European Union. This article is designed to be an easy-to-understand guide – if you have any questions ...
Will London Stock Exchange Merge With Deutsche Börse? Criticism Over Potential Deal Heats Up In UK, Germany
March 29th, 2016
Criticism of the potential sale of the London Stock Exchange Group to its German rival Deutsche Börse is heating up in both countries. Shareholders, industry veterans and politicians are split over the merger outlined this month, which would create one of the world’s largest ...
PwC staff grilled by MPs over Luxembourg deals
December 9th, 2014
Accountants and business advisors PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) came under fire from MPs yesterday during a parliamentary hearing. The hearing followed the leak of hundreds of Luxembourg tax rulings at the beginning of November. “I think what you are doing is selling ...
