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Marks and Spencer is creating its first international website intended to attract customers over the internet. The retailer is renowned for its under-representation in new shopping channels. Its foreign language site is an effort to combat this by taking the initiative online. The company has not said which country its mixture of children’s wear, women’s [...]
(Read More)7th Feb 11
Marks and Spencers to import NZ sheep for project
by Adam Richards
Agri-Food and BioScences Institute, based in the Northern Irish capital Belfast, will undertake what is being called The Sustainable Lamb Project. As briefly mentioned, the venture is being funded by Marks & Spencer in order to assess impacts of using Rissington Breedline breeding systems for sheep and improved Primera genetics. The researchers working on the [...]
(Read More)5th Feb 11
Marks to expand online interests
by Adam Richards
Marks & Spencer is looking into developing the relationships it has with bloggers and other influential internet users. The high street giant will make the moves as part of its strategy to boost online business. By combining both technical search utilities and internet public relations, the retailer is attempting to boost the search profile it [...]
(Read More)26th Jan 11
Marks and Spencer and Amex sweep credit card awards
by Natasha Redman
Marks & Spencer and American Express have come top of a poll for delivering outstanding customer service to their credit card customers. Both easily beat the high street banks at the Credit Card Customer Satisfaction Awards held by uSwitch. None of the traditional banks even managed to feature with M&S and Amex walking away as [...]
(Read More)6th Jan 11
Firms may be able to hide bigger rises by tax increases
by Harry Oldfield
The increase in VAT may be able to be used to hide much larger rises in prices as retails conduct a review of costs of goods in 2011. The 2.5 percent increase by Chancellor George Osborne that will now see the VAT reach 20 percent, may in fact be dwarfed by a total increase of [...]
(Read More)4th Jan 11
by Natasha Redman
M&S, Tesco to stagger VAT increase Two of Britain’s biggest retailers have revealed that they will stagger the government’s VAT rise throughout the whole of January. The move, made this week by Tesco and Marks and Spencer, is expected to put considerable pressure on rivals to do the same. M&S has decided to gradually phase [...]
(Read More)19th Dec 10
Tax protests get worse and start to target Marks and Spencer
by Natasha Redman
Protestors have started to target braches of Marks and Spencer this weekend as they claim that some of the largest high street retailers in Britain are not paying their fare share of tax. Two Marks and Spencer shops were targeted and invaded by protestors as part of the escalating nationwide demonstration that forced one of [...]
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30th Nov 10
Customers angry as M&S cut price champagne sells out within minutes
by Paul Russell
A Marks & Spencer special champagne offer failed to impress after dissatisfied shoppers across the country grumbled that bottles had sold out within minutes. In TV commercials shown on ITV, Five, Channel 4 and cable channels last week, M&S advertised its own-label Louis Chaurey champagne as being on special offer at £10, reduced from £30. [...]
(Read More)30th Nov 10
Marks and Spencer angers customers as £10 champagne vanishes
by Sally Davies
Marks & Spencer has defended itself against accusations of ‘bait pricing’ after bottles of champagne, advertised for just £10, ran out in stores in a matter of minutes. The grocer had advertised across several television channels that its Louis Chaurey champagne, which usually retails at £30 per bottle, would be reduced to just £10. The [...]
(Read More)14th Oct 10
Interflora challenges M&S use of Google AdWords
by Adam Richards
Interflora has taken M&S to European court in a bid to challenge the popular retailers advert ‘piggy-backing’ on Google. According to the popular UK flower chain, Marks & Spencer has paid the search engine giant to appear in the sponsored search links when anyone looks up Interflora. The M&S link will show up directly beneath [...]
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