Business & Financial analysis of M&S

Over the last 129 years M&S has grown from a single market stall to become an international multi-channel retailer. They now operate in over 50 territories worldwide and employ almost 82,000 people. Remaining true to their founding values of Quality, Value, Service, Innovation and Trust, we work hard to ensure our

New man at M&S looks to reconquer overseas markets and win hearts in home wares – An article by Julia Finch, appeared in The Guardian on November 06, 2010.

M&S are one of the UK's leading retailers of clothes, food, home products and financial services. Some 10 million people shop with us each week in over 375

Technology is very important in the retail market. In order to grow your business, make their business more secure and complete with the competitors, Marks and Spencer has to move along with the new technology. To do this they must manage their brands carefully. Major brand marketers often spend huge amounts on

Predominantly M&S are known as a clothing retailer but has grown organically into food and furnishings but, market watchers tend to judge their performance on the

Marks and Spencer face many ethical issues in their daily activities and these affect the public and their business in different ways.

Marks and Spencer is a major British multinational retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London. It specializes in the selling of clothing, home products and luxury food products. M&S was founded in 1884 by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in Leeds. “M&S has grown from a single market stall to an international, multi-channel retailer, selling stylish, high quality, great value clothing and home products, as well as outstanding quality food, responsibly sourced from around 3,000 suppliers globally. M&S have almost 800 stores throughout the UK.” It is the biggest and strongest competitor for Next.

Marks and Spencer (M&S) p.l.c. is one of the largest retailers in the United Kingdom with a selling space of 12.5 million square feet, was established in 1884 as ‘Penny bazaar’. M&S sells clothing, food, footwear, gifts and home furnishings in its 760 stores around the world. The company’s wholly own and franchise stores operates in Europe, Hong Kong, Far East, Australia, Middle East, the Bahamas and Bermuda making a total of 34 countries.

This document/report throws light on the business environment of Marks and Spencers and the analysis of strategic position, strategic direction, success criteria and backed up by future recommendations for the company based on all the mentioned aspects. The frameworks used to analyse the company are:

Marks & Spencer is founded by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer. Since starting in 1884 by selling clothes for men and women, the company has grown in the UK and soon in the rest of the world they experienced tremendous market strength and even expanded their items from food, wine, beverages and household items. In the 19th century they expanded to more than 1,250 stores in the UK and major cities in different countries worldwide. It also gained more than 85,000 employees during this decade. In the mid of the 19th century, however, it is challenged by the competition that weakened their clothing and fashion for men and women, their popularity began to subside.

M&S target market was to attract more people to their stores, usually people that visit M&S has an average income. M&S will provide a better offers for the customers. The shop has quite high prices for products, so not everyone can afford it. That is one of the main targets of M&S. As well as they targeting for different gender as M&S provides women’s and mans wear. Also targeting for people interests, for people who are interested in a cloth with a good quality. M&S targeting their

The purpose of this report is to determine the potential factors to sustain the investment within stock market of Mark and Spencer Company. This report starts by presenting background of the company and their current position, furthermore the microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis including PESTLE and SWOT analysis will be taken into account. Moreover, the financial performance will be the most important part to analysis their annual profits, share price and price of earning per share of company. Finally, this paper concludes by providing the recommendation for the company to enhance their performance and the suggestion for investors in order to support their decision-making.

Marks & Spencer is a British retailer with over 800 stores in more than 30 countries around the world. It is the largest clothing retailer in the UK, aswell as being a food retailer. Most of it’s domestic stores sell both clothing & food, and since the year 2000 Marks & Spencer have started to expand into other ranges

Marks & Spencer was once a top-of-the-line company in terms of its quality and selection. However, it is reported that the company has become" an out-of-date, uncompetitive blur on the UK stock market. The decline for Marks & Spencer began in the latter part of the 1990s and due to the pressure of a "changing economic demand causing Marks & Spencer to undergo continual business realignment"¦" (IBM, Ltd. 2005, p.1)

Marks and Spencer (M & S) was started by Michael Marks and later joint by a partner Tom Spencer in 1884. It is one of the largest British retailers that sold clothes, home furnishings, food, gifts etc. and was formerly known as St. Michael. It has markets in Europe, Far East, America and Asia. The company suffered a series of losses and a dip in the market share from a few years before the stepping down of the then CEO, Sir Richard Greenbury, in 1999. In 2001 the company underwent a drastic strategic change and the