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M&S Singapore has opened a table-service restaurant at Wheelock Place. As well as the M&S Cafe, the flagship store has introduced M&S chilled food, making it the first Asian outlet outside of Hong Kong to offer the range of more than 600 products. With 60…
It’s counter-intuitive, but less choice, fewer options and a smaller range of products can often help increase retail sales and customer satisfaction. Who would have guessed? Simplified, narrower product ranges are contributing to accelerated customer and…
After poor quarterly performances from Marks & Spencer’s general merchandise division, the full year results come as no surprise, with UK full-year like-for-like sales falling 1.1 per cent. That followed a drop of 1 per cent the previous year. Today sees the…
Indian retailer Reliance Industries has reported a 50 per cent growth in sales in its consumer electronics category for the quarter to December 31. Reliance Retail also consolidated its leadership in the grocery category, optimising its network to enhance…
UK department store operator Marks and Spencer has opened its first store in Beijing. The new 1500 sqm M&S Beijing store has opened in The Place shopping centre, selling clothing and food. M&S operates 10 stores in Shanghai and the move to Beijing is in line…
UK department store Marks & Spencer is planning to open one of its largest stores in Hong Kong early next year in Cheung Kong Property’s Wonderful Worlds of Whampoa centre in Hung Hom. According to a report in the South China Morning Post, California Fitness…
Marks and Spencer has opened its first store in Beijing. In 2014 the high street stalwart earmarked China, Russia, India, the Middle East and Western Europe for international expansion. Chief Exec Marc Bolland cited plans to open 250 new stores overseas in…
Business executives from global clothing giants H&M Inditex and Gap have canceled trips to Dhaka this month after the killings of two foreigners, industry sources said, causing anxiety for Bangladesh’s $25 billion garment export sector. Bangladeshi suppliers…
UK department store chain Marks & Spencer says it will slow its expansion plans in Greater China due to the economic and political turmoil in the two markets. The British retailer currently has 20 stores in Hong Kong and 10 in China and had been planning…
UK-based department store retailer Marks & Spencer has opened a second store in Vietnam’s largest city, Ho Chi Minh. Marks & Spencer Vietnam plans to have 20 stores trading in the country by 2020, focused on selling womenswear and menswear. The new store is…
Asif Ahmad, the UK ambassador to the Philippines, is one of the busiest diplomats in the country, as he leads, almost on a weekly basis, the opening of new outlets put up by dozens of British companies which are taking advantage of the rapidly growing…
A group of former executives of high profile British retail brands are planning to launch a department store online in China, via JD.com. The creators of the virtual department store to be called The Jack Russell Emporium are ex Marks & Spencer, Burberry and…
