Marks And Spencer Share Discussion Threads

[xxxxxy] 06/10/2020 08:02

Next event 4 November. Half year.hTtps://corporate.marksandspencer.com/investors/financial-calendar

[philanderer] 05/10/2020 16:12

Could M&S's new label be the bold move we've all been waiting for?

Marks & Spencer will now sell fashion by Nobody's Child

[thomasearnshaw] 05/10/2020 15:20

Be more people shopping on Ocado/Mks

[debsdowner] 05/10/2020 14:43

Corona breakout at Manchester universities now as cases spike up in the North.

[robot ic1] 05/10/2020 13:48

grim in the uk and grim with shares here .


its dump ,dump ,dump time .

down down down .it goes

[diku] 05/10/2020 13:10

This outfit will sell more umbrellas and raincoats?...

[debsdowner] 05/10/2020 13:02

Robot

Car sales down, 6,000 jobs to go at CIneworld.

Fiasco over test and trace, and a traffic light system on the way and more lockdowns.

To top it all it's raining.

Also Manchester has 500 cases per 100,000 the highest in the country.

[robot ic1] 05/10/2020 12:17

GOOD MORNING Qantas and Debsdowner .

Its looking very grim in the uk nowadays .

[xxxxxy] 05/10/2020 07:05

By Caroline Leaper, Senior fashion editor2 OCTOBER 2020 • 1:21 PMFor the first time in Marks & Spencer's 136-year history, the British retailer has launched a new fashion label, to be sold amongst its own-brand collections. M&S will now sell pieces by Nobody's Child on its website, a move which represents the first time an external brand has been sold in the M&S clothing department, despite the fact that the beauty and food departments have sold select branded items since 2009.So why start with this particular brand, if the goal now is to become a multi-brand fashion retailer? For the uninitiated, Nobody's Child is a small London label, making eco-certified clothes at affordable prices. Sweet floral print midi dresses (typically around £35 each) and puff sleeve blouses (£29) are its speciality - its signature style is clearly defined and well established - it does what it does, and it does it well.  Since it was founded in 2015, the company has grown to produce sizable collections and is also available on multi-brand retailers ASOS and Very.M&S will stock 140 styles from the brand's autumn collection initially, adding explanations of each fabric and why it is sustainable in each product listing. M&S has said it will announce further brand partners in the coming months, after assessing the success of the Nobody's Child launch. Director of e-commerce Stephen Langford has described the fact that Nobody's Child "shares our passion for sustainable clothing" as the reason they were picked to be the debut collaborator.Skirt, £29, Nobody's Child at Marks & SpencerFollowing decades spent trying to invent and define meaningless fashion sub brands (RIP Limited Collection, Indigo et al, which were dropped last year) this bold move could be a good one for M&S. In using their large platform to sell a third-party fashion label, they are effectively buying into a ready-made package with strong aesthetic, point of view and market position - strengthening their own offering in the process.The key now will be in how much they buy, and who else they buy from. 140 styles sounds like a lot, for a retailer which just weeks ago had explained that it was reducing the size of its own clothing collections by 20 per cent in an attempt to focus on quality over quantity. Midi dress, £39, Nobody's Child at Marks & SpencerGetting the balance right will be critical; if they suddenly launch dozens of brands, with 100-plus styles each, they risk stuff-ocation, and will overwhelm audiences with too much choice. The last thing the M&S website needs to become is another ASOS, which currently offers, for example, 13,669 options in the women's dresses category alone.Rival retailer Next, meanwhile has been upping its game as a multi-brand online seller in recent months, buying the UK arm of lingerie label Victoria's Secret out of administration, in a deal which M&S had apparently competed for. So there's a weigh up to be done, as boosting your own brand by surrounding it with others that mean something to consumers is clearly considered the new way to go.With a carefully chosen edit of just a few external brand partners, this strategy might just work for Marks & Spencer. The right brands could plug specific gaps in the M&S fashion offering, while allowing the revived and refined M&S core collection to shine as the place to go for quality wardrobe classics once again.  .. Daily Telegraph

[debsdowner] 04/10/2020 21:48

Another shocking rise in Corona infections:

Positive cases 22,000 (12,872)

Patients in hospital 2,428

On ventilators 368

Admissions 422

Deaths 33

[qantas] 04/10/2020 19:02

Good advert

[philanderer] 04/10/2020 14:07

Waitrose steals market share from Ocado despite M&S deal

[xxxxxy] 04/10/2020 13:18

OpinionThe UK's retail parks were once the future. Now they look like drab relics of the pastEddie BlakeRetail parks express our contradictions: economic efficiency and sentimental attachment to consumer goods. They also show how adaptable we are. While the UK endlessly looks back to its past, it is also very capable of embracing novelty. Retail parks were once the future, but the future didn't last long. No doubt one day these parks that can seem so drab and uninspiring will become places of nostalgia. Maybe we'll miss those beacons of consumerism just off the ring road, and all the optimism they represented.... The Guardian

[debsdowner] 04/10/2020 08:01

Robot

Frump isn't admitting whether or not he is drinking Dettol but a bottle of Harpic was seen in the loo.

After there were concerns about his 'vitals' he said he was grateful he had his 'chopper' !


It's still being debated what he meant by that as he was taken by helicopter but the virus can effect vital organs.

Will you be cummimg later?

[debsdowner] 03/10/2020 21:30

Breaking news shocking rise in Corona infections:

Positive cases nearly double on yesterday 12,872 (6,968)

[debsdowner] 03/10/2020 17:41

Trump has not denied drinking Dettol with his daily meds.

[qantas] 03/10/2020 11:52

Good morning Robot and debsdowner hope you are both fine?

Think the pond life have hibernated for the winter.




For the first time in Marks & Spencers 136-year history, the British retailer has launched a new fashion label, to be sold amongst its own-brand collections.
M&S will now sell pieces by Nobodys Child on its website, a move which represents the first time an external brand has been sold in the M&S clothing department, despite the fact that the beauty and food departments have sold select branded items since 2009.

[robot ic1] 03/10/2020 11:10

Good news ,Frump in hospital.

Dont wear masks this is what you get.

I though he drank Dettol

[xxxxxy] 03/10/2020 07:36

The traditional British banger and the EU's mash-up of food safety regulationsWith the drop in the EU's food safety rules, are their claims to protect us just porky pies??© Brexit Facts4EU.Org 2020Forget chlorinated chicken, new EU rules mean feeding us "abscesses, pus and TB material"Every year around eight million pigs are slaughtered for meat in the UK. The UK also imports pork meat from other EU countries. Meat from pigs' heads is recovered by specialised boning plants and goes into pies, sausages and other processed foods. Millions of us consume this meat many times each year.If the EU wants to portray itself as a responsible regulator of food safety standards, it might be thought that they would be strengthening food safety regulations in order to protect the public, not rowing back on them. Not so, according to the European Working Community for Food Inspection and Consumer Protection (EFWFC) which represents the EU's meat inspectors."Consumers are being exposed to an "avoidable risk" of disease after a reduction of official controls in food inspections of pig and poultry carcasses across the EU. Diseased meat is being eaten by consumers in the UK and EU, including pus from abscesses and tuberculosis lesions from pigs' heads."- The European Working Community for Food Inspection and Consumer Protection (EFWFC), 15 Sept 2020The EU has lowered its food safety requirementsThe EU introduced new measures for checking pigs entering the food chain. This reduced the requirement for checking pig meat from a thorough inspection to a visual-only inspection, and this was warned about back in 2014.A visual-only inspection misses underlying diseases. In the words of Ron Spellman, the Deputy Secretary of the European Working Community for Food Inspection and Consumer Protection (EFWFC) which represents EU meat inspectors:-"Inspectors stopped cutting lymph nodes in pigs' heads, which are known to contain abscesses and tuberculosis lesions. Under previous systems, the pigs' head would have been rejected for food, but now the meat is minced to make sausages and meat pies, spreading the pus from the abscesses and TB material throughout these products.""I don't think you can prove it's safe to feed people abscesses, pus and TB material."Mr Spellman is also a member of the UK's Association of Meat Inspectors, and he has been warning about the EU's lowering of food safety standards for many years. In June 2014 Mr Spellman told the BBC: "Last year we know that there were at least 37,000 pigs' heads with abscesses or tuberculosis lesions in lymph nodes in the head. They won't be cut now. There's no way to see those little abscesses, little tuberculosis lesions, without cutting those lymph nodes."Mr Spelman also speculated on the reasons for the EU's reduction in its food safety requirements: "These changes are motivated not by science or a desire to protect the consumer but are politically motivated to give the meat industry what they want: the reductions and eventual removal of official independent meat inspection."?The size of the problemWe looked at the Food Standards Agency's (FSA) report from January of this year. Here is what they said about 'foodborne diseases' - what most people would call 'food poisoning':-"We estimate that there were 2.4 million cases of foodborne disease in the UK in 2018, with 222,000 GP presentations and 16,400 hospital admissions."- "Foodborne Disease Estimates for the United Kingdom in 2018", FSA Report Jan 2020By any measure this effect on public health from 'foodborne diseases' is highly significant.So what does the EU Commission have to say about all of this?The EU Commission's justification for the reduction in meat inspections is that the cutting up of pig carcasses as part of meat inspections increases the risk of harmful bacteria spreading onto meat.A spokesperson for the European commission said: "The European Union retains some of the highest food safety standards in the world – this is a key priority. This is why the European Food Safety Authority provides expert scientific advice and recommendations while national authorities are responsible to carry out inspections in accordance with the official controls legislation."Any meat with lesions indicating an animal disease such as TB, or abscesses, or any pathological or organoleptic changes, must be considered as unfit for human consumption and not be placed on the market."The meat inspectors would doubtless agree with these worthy sentiments. However the problem as they see it is that the EU has reduced its safety requirements and ordered visual-only inspections of pigs. As Mr Spellman of the European Working Community for Food Inspection and Consumer Protection says: "There's no way to see those little abscesses, little tuberculosis lesions, without cutting those lymph nodes."OBSERVATIONSThe EU constantly claims to be the originator of consumers' and workers' rights. British Remainers still to this day make these claims, despite all evidence to the contrary. (See our one-pager on this here.)In the case of food safety standards above we have shown how yet again the EU claims one thing and does another."You are what you eat", as the saying goes. If that is the case then we are now worried about all the barbecued pork sausages we consumed over the summer. And we will never look at a pork pie in quite the same way again.Help is at hand, and it's called BrexitUnder the disastrous Withdrawal Agreement and its Transition Period, the UK is still bound by the EU's rules on food safety. If we had wished to restore the previous rules where our meat inspectors could do more than a visual inspection of a pig which might be infected, we could not have done so.From 01 January 2021, however, we can set our own rules. Currently most EU regulations are due to be reimposed as national laws by the UK Parliament, in order to ensure some continuity. We very much hope that most of these will be amended as quickly as possible to reflect the needs and wishes of the British people.Some of the Facts4EU.Org team are rather partial to a traditional British banger, as well as the odd pork pie, and we look forward to the day when we can once again eat them with relish.

[johnwise] 03/10/2020 07:28

I'll tell you something...if Trump gets worse and passes from this, you should think about your future....because he is the only one standing in the way of total China world communism....

150 Human Rights Groups Hold Largest-Ever Global Protest Against Chinese Regime

[xxxxxy] 02/10/2020 17:58

Yahoo Finance.And it applies to more than pubs.