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Students fight for a place on company-sponsored degrees

16.08.11
A-level students are scrambling to get onto university courses and apprenticeship schemes funded by big companies... more

Marks and Spencer drop Dannii Minogue from adverts

18.07.11
Former X Factor judge Dannii Minogue, singer VV Brown and model Ana Beatriz Barros will no longer feature in Marks & Spencer advertising campaigns... more

The missing middle market

04.05.11
Kate Middleton proved it with her high-end McQueen dress and cheap Zara going-away outfit - fashion's middle market is in the doldrums, as are many of our industries, says Jonathan Prynn... more

What it means to work on the shop floors of Oxford Street

01.03.11
Who gets London working? We spend billions in Europe's busiest shopping street, yet what do those who serve us earn? David Cohen investigates which stores pay the London Living Wage... more

A battle for control in property

09.07.10
About a dozen years ago the insurance industry woke up to the fact that brokers were running its business... more

Bosses’ pay should be the least of a shareholder's worries

06.07.10
City Comment: On the one hand it is good to see shareholder involvement. But it is a negative that they only seem to get agitated about pay... more

Two knights bow out but Sir Stuart Rose's departure is thorny

26.05.10
City Comment: It is fitting Sir Stuart Rose and Sir Brian Williamson should retire at the same time, but the M&S boss had the harder road... more

This isn’t just a decline ... it’s a Marks & Spencer decline

13.04.10
Comment: The store front is fading and a little grotty. The shop sign seems left over from the Fifties. This is not just M&S. This is the Holloway Road M&S... more

Video: Myleene a Klass act in her bikini on the beach

25.02.10
Myleene Klass hits the beach wearing a bikini in Barbados to relax after filming a Marks and Spencer ad campaign... more

Waitrose thanks M&S for boost

13.11.09
Waitrose said a big thank you to Marks & Spencer for its “high-profile advertising campaign” after the John Lewis-owned supermarket saw soaring sales of its tea bags, penne pasta and sausages, all featured in M&S’s price comparison ads ... more

£10 food-and-wine deals 'fuelling alcohol abuse by middle classes'

30.10.09
Wine should be banned from supermarket meal deals because it fuels heavy drinking among middle-aged professionals, an alcohol abuse charity said... more

City code for top chiefs 'needs revamp'

25.06.09
Leading companies are calling for yet another overhaul of the so-called Combined Code, which sets guidelines for good corporate governance such as the appointments of chairmen.... more

Great companies should train their own for the top

22.06.09
In what was a typical weekend, the three main stories in one Sunday newspaper were about the succession in some of our best-known companies... more

This is not just any tomato...

20.05.09
Marks and Spencer's launch latest super fruit - the ‘kumato’ - which despite its rotten appearance claims to be an aphrodisiac... more

Shoppers clear M&S shelves as store drops prices to 1p

20.05.09
Thousands queue to buy everything from jewellery to socks as Marks & Spencer's drops its prices to just a penny... more

M&S slashes dividend as profits plunge

19.05.09
Marks & Spencer saw profits slump by 40% to £604 million in the year to March 28, as the retail giant slashed its dividend and admitted it was “cautious” about the outlook for the rest of the year ... more

M&S chief faces shopper revolt over £2 extra for bigger bras

05.05.09
Marks & Spencer chairman Sir Stuart Rose is set to have a face-to-face confrontation with campaigners over the store's surcharge on bigger bras... more

Tamil protesters to target M&S over Sri Lanka links

07.04.09
The Tamil supporters who brought chaos to Westminster are planning a series of demonstrations this summer at branches of Marks & Spencer... more

Let’s keep problems in perspective

09.01.09
The Bank of England may have been forced by the economic crisis to cut interest rates to the lowest level in its history, but actually it has been rather a good week for the economy... more

Supermarkets to halve free plastic bags

18.12.08
Supermarkets promised to slash the number of plastic bags they hand out to escape having to impose a charge on them... more

Brand war over M&S flowers

09.12.08
Interflora is suing Marks & Spencer in a dispute that could change the way companies advertise on the internet... more

Stores told to cut plastic bags for customers by 70%

29.07.08
Supermarkets have been told that they must cut the number of plastic bags they offer to customers by 70 per cent... more

Yellow variety blows raspberry market wide open

09.07.08
It is one of the culinary highlights of an English summer - but this year the traditional red raspberry is being given a makeover... more

Comment: A good time to buy quality

08.07.08
According to official definitions, we are now in a bear market... more

£300,000 for slip on M&S grape

10.03.08
A London man who slipped on a grape and ruptured a thigh muscle today began suing Marks & Spencer for £300,000... more


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