"First visit to Spearmint Rhino in ages last night mate. I took a sabbatical. Don't like it much. It's gone all-upmarket. You know, classy. I don't think they understand their customers needs." That was typical chatter today among the wheeler dealears who peddle yarns and shares for a living... more
Sir Stuart Rose waltzed out of Marks & Spencer's with a £1.36 million cash bonus, the company annual report today shows, following a year in which the shares did little... more
Days after facing down angry shareholders at Marks & Spencer’s AGM, outgoing chairman Sir Stuart Rose has an easier audience at Leeds University ... more
Sir Stuart Rose edges towards his exit from Marks & Spencer by reporting a rise in profits and saying the worst of the financial crisis is in the past... more
Video: Sir Stuart Rose announces an upbeat set of sales figures in his swansong appearance as the top man at Marks & Spencer but runs into City scepticism... more
Fed up at criticism of the pay package of Marc Bolland, his successor at Marks & Spencer, Sir Stuart Rose said: “If you pay peanuts, you get
a monkey”
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Marks & Spencer chairman Sir Stuart Rose gave evidence that he has dragged the retailer through one of the toughest periods in its 125-year history ... more
Marks & Spencer's embattled board has defended itself against a barrage of hostility from small shareholders over the position of chief executive Sir Stuart Rose... more
It's a tale of two High Streets. While supermarkets, budget clothes shops and HMV have emerged as recession-winners, most of their rivals remain in the doldrums, praying for the recovery to come ... more
Former Marks & Spencer boss Sir Richard Greenbury today came out battling for its current executive chairman Sir Stuart Rose ahead of what is set to be a rowdy shareholder meeting on Wednesday
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Sir Stuart Rose today delivered a smaller-than-expected drop in sales at High Street giant Marks & Spencer and dismissed City anger about the power he wields as executive chairman ... more
Sir Stuart Rose, chairman of Marks & Spencer, got a 28% pay rise last year despite the retailing giant’s profits crashing by 40% and almost all its 70,000 staff being told that they will receive no bonus ... more
Five years ago, the talk at Chelsea was of deals. One in particular occupied the minds of some of those at the Flower Show’s gala night: Marks & Spencer and whether Philip Green was going to make a bid... more
Marks & Spencer slashed its dividend by a third after a slump in annual profits which left executive chairman Sir Stuart Rose short on optimism... more
There were tentative signs of recovery at Marks & Spencer, but executive chairman Sir Stuart Rose insisted that this was thanks to his own strategy rather than a High Street resurgence... more
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