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M&S is investing £12.5m into developing its London store portfolio this year, with a pipeline of new stores set to create 200 new roles for Londoners. It follows a £10.3m investment in the heritage retailer’s store estate in London last year, which also created 200 jobs, totalling £23m and 400 …

From January 2023, M&S will offer its store staff a four-day working week. More than 3000 retail managers will be offered flexible working options, such as spreading their hours over five days, working a four-day compressed week or a nine-day compressed fortnight. Part-time managers will also be able to access …

M&S (Marks & Spencer) has added two new roles to its retail, operations and property leadership team with the appointment of Will Smith as property director and Helen Milford as retail director. M&S said: ‘Both will report into retail, operations & property director Sacha Berendji. Whilst we have previously had …

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced that Richard Price, the current ceo of F&F Clothing at Tesco, has been appointed to the role of M&S managing director of clothing & home. Richard will join M&S next year and a start date will be ‘confirmed in due course’. Richard first joined …

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced plans to open a new 60,000sq ft store at British Land’s Giltbrook Retail Park in Nottingham in Summer 2020. Up to 150 new and existing M&S staff will work at the new store in Nottingham, with recruitment in Spring 2020. The announcement comes less …

In a UK industry first, seven retailers have joined forces to launch an online training guide designed to help the mental health and wellbeing of retail workers. Funded by the John Lewis Partnership,(JLP) Tesco, Sainsbury’s, ASOS, Co-op, Marks & Spencer (M&S) and Next – and developed with the expertise of …

This year Marks & Spencer (M&S) customers are getting ready for Christmas earlier than ever before. The clothing, home and food products chain said ‘Christmas’ has been in the top 10 customer searches on M&S.com since the beginning of September, with an average of 2,500 searches a day. In response …

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has removed glitter from its entire Christmas celebration range this year, including greeting cards, wrapping paper, tags, gift bags, calendars and crackers. All designs which previously featured glitter are now widely recyclable and have been replaced with paper patterns or minimal foils. The move represents the …

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced that Jill McDonald is leaving the business nearly two years after taking over as managing director of clothing and home. The retailer’s ceo Steve Rowe will be taking over her responsibilities in the near term. He said: “Jill was brought in to establish a …

Marks & Spencer Food has announced its first ever TV sponsorship as it joins forces with ITV series ‘Britain’s Got Talent’. The retailer said ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ is the UK’s most popular TV talent show, with a peak audience of 11.2 million viewers for the 2018 series. The sponsorship deal …