Hints and tips:
...I don’t think we can get an Oscar-winning actress but we could definitely get Holly Willoughby or Maya Jama from Love Island....
...Marks and Spencer left its full-year profit forecasts unchanged after relatively weak Christmas trading in stores was offset by a stronger performance online....
...“Look at what M&S has done with Holly Willoughby. The products are hardly amazing but M&S has worked out the power of her brand and her appeal.”...
...Marks and Spencer has warned there will be “little improvement in sales trajectory” this year, after it reported falling clothing and food revenues amid disruption caused by its restructuring programme....
...If Paddington Bear could not help reverse Marks and Spencer’s “ageing customer base”, can the presenter of pensioners’ favourite daytime TV show do any better? Or a septuagenarian Dame?...
...mocking the tear-stained blotters in Debenhams’ boardroom, after the department store’s chairman and chief executive were handed hankies and their marching orders . . . or mimicking the melancholy of Ms Holly...
...Willoughby, as her Marks and Spencer “must haves” failed to reverse lachrymose sales . . . or echoing the briny sobs of New Look owner Brait, which only added to the dilutive effect of a debt-for-equity...
...Today’s Lombard column focuses on Marks and Spencer’s age-old problems: If Paddington Bear could not help reverse Marks and Spencer’s “ageing customer base”, can the presenter of pensioners’ favourite daytime...
...She’s at her best in the presence of goodness: visited by the demure Grace Farrell (Holly Dale Spencer — very good at being unfeasibly nice), she lolls on the floor, swigging gin and rolling her eyes in...
...“We saw a slower start in coat sales this season due to milder weather,” admits Holly Russell, senior buyer. “However, we are increasingly pre-empting this, as are our brands....
...At Marks and Spencer, customers can get a £25 bottle of champagne for £10 if they buy a “Dine In” package at the weekend....
...Holly Tucker and Sophie Cornish notonthehighstreet.com British Tucker and Cornish founded notonthehighstreet in 2006. Nine years later, sales are nearing £100m....
...Marks and Spencer, Debenhams and J Sainsbury have reported similar rises. There has also been a flurry of classes in baking skills....
...To a great extent, Nunn lets the songs power the action, so Holly Dale Spencer and Adam Garcia as the number-two couple need do little but sing “Why Can’t You Behave?”...
...Mr Geoghegan shared a table with Icap boss Michael Spencer, while a day of golf with players including Goldman Sachs’ Richard Gnodde at the exclusive Queenwood golf course prompted a bidding war....
...Throughout the meal Price often talks about his own children, Holly and Lily, and his wife Judith, whom he met 19 years ago while working at Waitrose’s Southampton store....
...That’s where you’ll find the stealthy Spencer Hot Springs. Head west on Highway 50, take a left on Route 376, then your first left on to dirt road 001....
...Holly Grainger, credit analyst at Morley Fund Management, said: “This is good news for investors, as the more protection from potential negative credit events we can get, the better.”...
...Recent polls show Mrs Clinton defeating John Spencer, her Republican challenger, by a 30-point margin, and the Post said he was not “a credible alternative”....
...A Marist poll released last week showed her winning re-election easily against John Spencer, a former Yonkers mayor who is a potential challenger....
...Spencer Abraham's tenure at the Department of Energy was marked by a mass power blackout in the north-eastern US and sharp debate on opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration....
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