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...H&M had backed Renewcell, another textile recycling start-up, but it went bankrupt last month. “It is not easy,” Daniel Ervér, H&M’s new chief executive, told the Financial Times....
...I’m glad I’m making it now, and not 20 years ago.” Back then, the ballet world wasn’t exactly rolling out the red carpet for Marston....
...profit is encouraging, and I think that they desperately need to have the resources to invest more in the business because it has become competitively weak over recent years in a number of key areas,” said Richard...
...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....
...“I’m very grateful to Katie for her support in seeing M&S through this important period in the reshaping of the business....
...It all led to here, and I’m very, very content with here and now....
...White said: “I’m delighted to be handing over to Jason, who has a combination of fantastic retail experience with leadership through transformation.”...
...Richard Hyman, retail analyst at Thought Provoking Consulting, described Tarry as “a proper retailer”, adding that “the challenges facing the partnership are retail issues and can only be solved through...
...“I’m quite happy about it and I [shall] go on working for as long as I want to.”...
...Tim Steiner, Ocado’s chief executive and co-founder, insisted the relationship with M&S was strong, but added: “We believe that we have a very solid case to get full payment, we know that M&S may not entirely...
...“Everything I’m hearing is that they will kick-start private sector investment much more proactively than the Tories were able to do,” he added....
...Murphy said: “There is loads of uncertainty out there but I see a gentle improvement in customer sentiment . . . so on the whole I’m feeling quite positive.”...
...“M&S’s decision to increase minimum pay levels in line with numerous other supermarkets reflects this reality,” Speke said....
...“I’m sure if somebody came along with a £1bn cheque book that would be a different conversation, but that’s not what I’ve been brought in to do,” he said....
...Gove intervened and rejected M&S’s multimillion plans to rebuild the store in central London in July, two years after planning was approved by Westminster City Council....
...The shop isn’t far from my office in Paris, so whenever I’m in the neighbourhood, and I’ve given them enough notice, I’ll pop by and find some treasures. LMG is a tiny antiques gallery....
...In a phone call on Tuesday, Starmer told Rantzen: “I’m personally in favour of changing the law. I think we need to make the time . . . Esther, I can give you that commitment right now.”...
...“M&S has a history of overpromising and underdelivering.” The strong performance from Tesco and M&S comes a day after rival J Sainsbury disappointed investors with weak general merchandise sales....
...H&M will close more stores than it opens this year, he added....
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...“What’s happening now — it’s like the movie Network, where the main character says ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore’,” says Gene Ludwig, a former Comptroller of the Currency and...
...Laura Battle Well, I agree with the poetry thing. And I’m also a complete sucker for those sort of aspirational, outdoorsy books....
...Richard Chamberlain at RBC Capital Markets was bullish about its long-term prospects....
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