Marks And Spencer Share Discussion Threads

[gruss] 04/4/2011 02:49

Ich sehe die Tasche Dame namens mraverage88 ist auf dem Board iii jetzt glücklich sie hat einige düstere Nachrichten zu teilen mit uns gefunden. Sie hat sich ihr primark Kleidungsstücke in einem Twist.

[artnouveau] 03/4/2011 15:41

I was thinking the same thing. Hennes (H&M) recently had a 30% fall off in profits. Only Next seems to have weathered the clothes sales barometer recently.

Food sales at Sainsbury's are sluggish but up and similar performance on the food side (not great but up) is predicted by M&S.

Will be interesting to see if M&S's sales aren't too bad (compared to the competition) whether a new bidder (after all these years) for the company does emerge.

I'm accumulating the shares between £3.30 & £3.69. Will wait a couple more months before possibly buying some more. Will be interesting to see if they increase or just maintain the final dividend during the summer.

ArtN

[shroder] 03/4/2011 15:26

I wonder how much is already in the price given the level of coverage.

[artnouveau] 03/4/2011 15:19

Good article in the Scotsman to...



I hope this is the bottom in the retail market. If so, once M&S's expansion abroad and online kicks in the future should be rosey (not Stuart Rosey though).
ArtN

[lyntwyn] 03/4/2011 13:32

Sunday Times suggests that the retail weakness is nearly over and now may be the time to buy shares like MKS. In the last cycle retail shares shot up 40% in 6 months.

[artnouveau] 03/4/2011 07:24

Worth a read whether you're long or short...

[old crow] 01/4/2011 12:26

There is a clever boy, my apologies if your female though you dont talk like it
How did you guess

Seriously the word is been very busy.

Cheers

[gruss] 01/4/2011 12:14

When you say they are working on the floor, I assume they are cleaners then.

[old crow] 01/4/2011 12:08

Believe the Crows next Wednesday the price moves North so buy now.
Have relations working on the floor in Marks.

[isis] 01/4/2011 11:32

Marks & Spencer to open in Paris later this year
Marks & Spencer will open a 15,000 square-foot shop on Paris's Champs-Elysees later this year and start a website in French, 10 years after exiting the country under a cloud.

M&S announced in March 2001 that it would close all 38 of its European stores, with the loss of 3,350 jobs.
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M&S plans to open a number of Simply Food stores in and around Paris with a franchise partner, and is looking for a limited number of locations for clothing and food shops.
The move will take place "towards the end of this year," M&S said.
The British high street stalwart said it would be following a "bricks & clicks" strategy in France, with its website offering goods priced in euros and written in French, as well as the shops.
"Marks & Spencer has great brand awareness here in France and a place in customers' hearts," said Marc Bolland, chief executive.
M&S will take over the Champs-Elysees site from clothing chain Esprit, French newspaper La Tribune reported last year.
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The UK retailer is focusing on overseas expansion as a major part of its future growth. It is targeting sales from its international operations of between £800m and £1bn over the next four years, excluding Ireland. Currently its international sales are just over £500m.
M&S's decision in March 2001 to close all 38 of its Continental stores by the end of that year as part of a group restructuring is still seen as one of its greatest ever strategic blunders.
The move saw 3,350 jobs go in Europe, and provoked uproar among European consumers. The closures were met with strikes, sit-ins and angry demonstrations by its Continental workforce, including a rally in London.
The Paris store had its own book of condolence and, when closed, the shop became a symbol for the decline of M&S's global ambitions.

[isis] 01/4/2011 11:07

Well it's not going to happen for several months. European stores seem to be faring better as the UK now are big internet shoppers.
M&S will have to sweat this out with the rest.

[gruss] 01/4/2011 10:58

Well that news went down like a lead balloon. Lets up it does not turn into a French farce!

[isis] 01/4/2011 08:03

TIDMMKS

RNS Number : 1007E

Marks & Spencer Group PLC

01 April 2011

1 April 2011

MARKS & SPENCER RETURNs TO FRANCE WITH

new 'Bricks & Clicks' strategy

Marks & Spencer today announces that it will return to France towards the end of this year with a combined e-commerce and retail 'bricks & clicks' strategy in line with its business plans announced in November.

The move will see Marks & Spencer launch a new retail website, in French and trading in Euros, providing opportunities to serve customers throughout France. The company will also open a new store in the heart of Paris on the Champs-Elysees towards the end of this year offering a selection of both womenswear and food.

Marks & Spencer is also in advanced talks with SSP, an established UK franchise partner, regarding opening a number of Marks & Spencer Simply Food stores at strategic locations in and around Paris and is now looking for suitable sites. The retailer is also looking for a limited number of locations from which to sell a larger clothing and food offer.

Speaking from Paris, Marc Bolland, Marks & Spencer's Chief Executive, said:

"Marks & Spencer has great brand awareness here in France and a place in customers' hearts. We're very excited to be returning with an e-commerce and retail offer to delight customers with our full range of clothing and home products, and the exceptional food from our Paris store."

Both the new French website and Parisian store are scheduled to launch prior to this year's peak Christmas trading period to capitalise on the strong consumer awareness of the

Marks & Spencer brand[1].

French Website

Marks & Spencer's full range of high quality, stylish fashions for all the family and a selection of homeware products will be available to customers across the country via its brand new French website.

www.marksandspencer.fr will be the retailer's first international transactional website. The new French language website will offer a full range of womenswear and lingerie; menswear; kidswear and homeware - all priced in Euros and with local delivery prices.

Retail

Marks & Spencer is returning to Paris with an aspirational store located at 100 Avenue des Champs-Elysees. This 1,400 square metre (15,000 sq ft) store will trade over three floors in a unique location and showcase the very best of Marks & Spencer's stylish womenswear and lingerie alongside a convenience offer of high quality, innovative food.

Marks & Spencer will retain all 30 of the store's current employees - including the Store Manager - all of whom will take part in comprehensive training programmes over the coming months.

Marks & Spencer is also looking to open a number of Marks & Spencer Simply Food stores at strategic locations in and around Paris. The retailer is in advanced talks with SSP and together they are now looking for suitable sites.

[1] Independent Research November 2010. Prompted responses of 750 surveyed consumers revealed that over 70% of French consumers are aware of the Marks & Spencer brand.

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[old crow] 01/4/2011 08:01

Remember wise words from the Crows

Only 3 more days to buy on the cheap.

[nickward] 30/3/2011 15:05

Gruss, that wasn't meant as advice, just a bit of banter. If you are in for the long term then I wish you luck and I am sure you will have many buying opportunities and long term you may well be rewarded. I do the same with Rio Tinto and a number of others, every time they fall by a couple of lengths rather than a nags head I top up for the long term, the other week was a perfect buying opportunity for commodity based companies.

[gruss] 30/3/2011 12:44

What concerns more than anything there will be no fresh sandwiches at the AGM but will serve up the ones left over from the day before.

nickward

I'm keeping my long johns on. Not ready for shorts just yet!!

[ignoble] 30/3/2011 12:40

My wife is shopping at Marks Food Halls again , reckons they are nothing like as expensive as they were seen a few years ago !
Quality , of course , is excellent as always.

[isis] 30/3/2011 12:30

OMG - does that mean no Goody Bag this year then!

[nickward] 30/3/2011 12:25

Gruss

Not even slightly scorched. I don't want to say I told you so, but you better get your shorts on for the summer! In fact you should keep them on for the winter because Christmas 2011 could well be the most miserable Christmas in a long time for retailers. Don't believe for one minute that the cut in corporation tax is going to make any difference, it might help some business's pocket some cash, but it won't create jobs and it won't help consumer confidence. 'UK Uncut' is really beginning to get going and there are some tax dodging retailers out there 'Boots' 'Next' and a few others that are going to get some real flak from the public once they realise how much corporation tax has been siphoned off while the public take the brunt of the cuts.

[miata] 30/3/2011 11:42

Oriel Securities analysts say M&S's fourth-quarter general merchandise sales could be down as much as 8 percent on a like-for-like basis, and cut their pretax profit forecasts for 2010-11 and 2011-12 by 40 million pounds and 30 million pounds respectively, to 700 million and 780 million.

[gruss] 30/3/2011 09:40

WOW. Not even 09.40 and over 4 million shares traded. Time to batten down the hatches.

Dixons Retail has slumped more than 10% after a profit warning. The PC World and Currys owner says consumer confidence has deteriorated, particularly in Britain and Ireland. That does not bode well for the high street and elsewhere in the retail sector, M&S, Next, Argos owner Home Retail Group and Comet owner Kesa Electricals are suffering.

[careful] 29/3/2011 18:00

philip green did not make a bid in 2004.
he was told to put up or shut up so he walked away.
they would not let him look at the books.