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‘We have a lot more to do’: no pats on the back at M&S despite blockbuster year

Turnaround is in full swing and bearing fruit, but bosses are only too aware of a history of revamps that failed to stick

The Guardian - UK

M&S rents warehouse just to store post-Brexit paperwork, boss reveals

Ex-Tory MP and M&S chairman said ‘it is quite extraordinary… you wouldn’t believe it’, but the retailer has to store thousands of pages of documents in a warehouse in the Republic of Ireland for six years after taking food across the border

The Independent UK

Planet Organic blames its 'entitled, Posh Totty' customers for £900k shoplifting bill

Planet Organic's CEO suggested regular shoppers think they are owed the occasional free item thanks to their loyalty.

Fortune

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M&S gets it right (finally) on annual meetings. Others should make an effort

Last year’s ‘digital-only’ event ruffled feathers. This year’s hybrid meeting fuelled greater attendance and more openness

The Guardian - UK

Archie Norman is right -- time to unleash our pension funds

City Comment: Pensions avoiding the stock market are starving the economy of capital

Evening Standard

OPINION - Marks and Spencer have turned it round completely — and this is how

In January 2008, Jeremy Paxman wrote an angry letter to then Marks and Spencer boss Sir Stuart Rose about the state of his pants. They were letting him down. The Newsnight presenter said: “I’ve noticed that something very troubling has happened. There’s no other way to put this. The pants…

Evening Standard

M&S’s revival is the real deal – don’t mess it up again

The retail giant has clocked up 12 consecutive quarters of sales growth but it must remember mistakes of the past

The Guardian - UK

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Self-checkout counters encourage shoplifting among middle-class Brits, Marks & Spencer chairman says

M&S added hundreds of self-service counters to its stores earlier this year—but those can be loopholes for shoplifters.

Fortune

Sparks flies: how frumpy Marks & Spencer became fashionable again

Four years ago the venerable retailer fell out of the FTSE 100, suffering a humiliating blow to its prestige. But now it has turned things around

The Guardian - UK

After years on the ropes, is M&S finally turning around?

Sane financing and a brutal restructuring have helped the retailer return to the FTSE 100

The Guardian - UK

Not just an AGM, it’s an M&S AGM – retailer should at least give shareholders a cuppa

The Marks & Spencer chairman’s digital push is good for access – but shareholders should be encouraged to turn up

The Guardian - UK

Ex ITV boss says 'work place relations do happen' as he weighs in on Schofield saga

Archie Norman, former chairman of ITV, has defended the station in the wake of the Phillip Schofield affair scandal and said 'work place relationships happen'

Daily Mirror

Digital shareholders meetings could recreate some of the buzz we lost

It’s time to modernise shareholder relations and make AGMs interesting again

The Guardian - UK

M&S boss lashes out at 'baffling' Brexit plan he warns will raise prices

Archie Norman, who is a former Tory MP, is the latest business leader to criticise ministers over their economic policies, warning Foreign Secretary James Cleverly in a letter that labelling changes would be "baffling"

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Wales Online

M&S chair says UK Government’s ‘baffling’ post-Brexit plans will wreck trade

Archie Norman, who is also an ex-Conservative MP, has urged the Government to convince the EU not to consider separate labelling for goods sold in Northern Ireland

The Guardian - UK

M&S warns against separate post-Brexit labelling for goods sold in Northern Ireland

Retailer urges UK government not to consider such a move as it would mean ‘overbearing and prohibitive costs’ for exporters

Evening Standard

Families won’t be able to afford to pay mortgages, warns M&S chief

Rate rises are the biggest threat to the economy, Marks & Spencer chairman Archie Norman warns

The Independent UK

Prescott ‘did nothing wrong’ over Clapham flat fiasco, Blair told Tory MP

Files released by the National Archives in Kew reveal how the Prime Minister backed his deputy amid allegations of a conflict of interest.

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The Guardian - UK

Stuart Rose says business needs quick successor to ‘lame duck’ PM Johnson

Veteran retailer among business leaders and Tory donors calling for a new prime minister to boost UK’s ailing economy

The Guardian - UK

Marks & Spencer doubles payout for outgoing boss to £2.6m

M&S to pay Steve Rowe £1.6m annual bonus atop £1m salary with 4,500 staff also gaining first bonus in five years

Daily Mirror

School lunch portions may SHRINK with cheaper ingredients used to counter food costs

Andrew Selley, chief executive of Bidfood, said schools might have to use cheaper ingredients in a bid to counter rapidly rising food prices - or raise cost of dinners

Liverpool Echo

Schools may be forced to reduce lunch portion sizes for lunches due to rising food prices

A food wholesaler has warned that smaller, cheaper meals may be inevitable for the country's schools

Chronicle Live

M&S boss warns shoppers over 'apocalyptic' rising cost of food

The Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, described soaring living costs as "apocalyptic"

Manchester Evening News

M&S and ex-ASDA boss issues bleak warning to every shopper in Britain

Archie Norman has issued a bleak message to anyone who uses supermarkets in Britain

The National (Scotland)

Food prices could increase by 10 per cent this year, warns M&S chief

FOOD prices could soar by as much as 10 this year, the chairman of Marks & Spencer (M&S) has warned.

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