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...The Tesco veteran, who has worked at the grocer since joining its graduate scheme in 1990, grew up in a farming village in Kent, where his father worked for the local council and his mother was a seasonal...
...Philip Georgiadis Stuart Machin, Marks and Spencer Winding down during the festive period is not an option for Stuart Machin, the chief executive of Marks and Spencer, as the upmarket British retail chain...
...The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber)A collection of the 16 song lyrics that Nobel laureate Ishiguro wrote for the singer Stacey Kent with illustrations...
...Over the two-day event, both she and farming minister Mark Spencer were challenged by farmers over a range of problems linked to Brexit and high inflation, highlighting disillusionment in rural constituencies...
...Hospitality “It’s hard to conceive of a sector that’s taken more of a hit,” said Jonathan Neame, chief executive of Shepherd Neame, a Kent-based brewer and pub operator, of hospitality....
...Nothing fancy, he’ll say: Marks and Spencer will do. In so doing, of course, he bids to suck all the joy out of a family Christmas Day. And, no, you don’t want anything fancy....
...Among the more extreme scenarios being speculated on is that Marks & Spencer might buy the name, or that the historic archive of uniforms and militaria might be auctioned off....
...Marks and Spencer introduced its first packaged sandwich — salmon and tomato — in 1980. Pret A Manger was founded in its current form in 1986....
...Spencer said he was “delighted” to support the fundraising....
...Archie Norman, chair of Marks and Spencer, said this week: “Some of the descriptors, particularly of animal products, have to be written in Latin and in a certain typeface.”...
...The centrepiece is the wonderful rhythmic complex that is Horse Guards, started by William Kent and finished by Wright, Robinson and Vardy in the 1750s....
...Together with Anthony Good, a British PR executive who brought brands such as Marks & Spencer to India, and other investors, he acquired Cox & Kings around 1980, according to Courtney’s manuscript....
...Ocado will open a smaller version of its fulfilment centres in Bristol shortly, while capacity at another centre in Kent will be increased....
...The façade of Spencer House with its oversized pediment almost recreates the portico of the Roman Pantheon....
...In London, Marks and Spencer’s flagship Marble Arch store faces demolition as business moves online....
...aristocratic eccentricity clings to the place — unavoidable as soon as you see the statue of a hippo clambering from a formal pond in the middle of a lawn or open the padded green leather doors to the Spencer...
...Incomes and house prices in the Kent town are well above the national average. It is home to a John Lewis, supposedly the preferred emporium of the comfortably off....
.../ From Siobhan Lewington, Ivy Hatch, Kent, UK...
...Stephen Hazell-Smith Penshurst, Kent, UK...
...Having worked at Marks and Spencer for 20 years, Pierce decided to strike out on her own as a virtual assistant 18 months ago....
...Letter in response to this article: The thin line to intrusion on facial recognition / From Jim Cashman, Tonbridge, Kent, UK...
...Another memorial was the springboard for Marc Chagall’s 12 stained glass windows in Tudeley church, in Kent, commissioned by the family of Sarah d’Avigdor-Goldsmid who died in a sailing accident aged just...
...Three traditional retailers with significant property exposure — Debenhams, Marks and Spencer and Pets at Home — are currently among the most shorted UK shares....
...Mr Spencer turned bullish as he realised he had let his snobbishness about English wines get in the way....
...Media veteran Spencer Neumann has been hired at Netflix to become the streaming service’s new finance chief....
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