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...M&S’s contract with HSBC, which owns M&S Bank, is up for renewal. M&S is likely to push for more control and a bigger cut of the spoils....
...Sales at Primark, the FTSE 100’s jewel in the crown, rose 6 per cent to £4.5bn, while adjusted operating profit jumped 45 per cent to £508mn, in spite of continued “cost of living pressures”....
...subject to the shareholder scrutiny that goes with being a listed company....
...At the time when she and Machin were appointed co-CEOs, Nick Bubb, an independent retail analyst, described the move to appoint co-chief executives “not just a fudge, but an M&S fudge”....
...Since late October, the S&P 500 is up just over a fifth. Its much easier to lure companies into the public glare when valuations are improving....
...M&S struck a deal to buy half of Ocado Retail, the online supermarket, in 2019 as it sought to sell more food online....
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...The S&P 500 index was 1.2 per cent lower. Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo, pointed to fears of a return to 2022, when equities underwent a brutal sell-off....
...the capital’s premier shopping district,” M&S said in a statement....
...Waitrose is only slightly ahead of M&S in the grocery market, with a 3.6 per cent market share this month versus the latter’s 3.4 per cent, according to data provider NIQ....
...The UK’s largest supermarket chain now expects adjusted operating profits of £2.75bn from its retail business, up from an earlier projection of £2.6bn-£2.7bn....
...However, the payments company, whose report also includes consumer confidence surveys, did point to brighter spots in the economy for the year ahead....
...Its stock has lost more than three-quarters of its value since 2021’s peak, at a time when many video game companies are struggling to find growth in the console or mobile markets after the end of the Covid...
...Switching the primary listing to the US would also allow the company to meet criteria for potential index inclusion in the S&P 500, he added....
...There is, he says, “serious oversupply” in the retail market — too many businesses vying for our custom — and, as recent retail collapses have demonstrated, not enough consumer spending to sustain them all...
...They added that the sales target was in line with the company’s overall growth targets and would therefore not reduce the sale of unhealthy products....
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...This familiar plot of a struggling and unloved UK company grew thicker when Chinese ecommerce giant JD.com confirmed its interest on Monday....
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