Marks & Spencer

Retail Asia01/01/2016

UK department store operator Marks and Spencer has opened its first store in Beijing. The new 1500 sqm M&S Beijing store has opened in The Place shopping centre, selling clothing and food. M&S operates 10 stores in Shanghai and the move to Beijing is in line with a strategy to gradually expand in China’s tier […]

Retail Asia22/12/2015

UK department store Marks & Spencer is planning to open one of its largest stores in Hong Kong early next year in Cheung Kong Property’s Wonderful Worlds of Whampoa centre in Hung Hom. According to a report in the South China Morning Post, California Fitness is vacating its space in the centre to make way […]

Retail Asia18/12/2015

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Marks and Spencer has opened its first store in Beijing. In 2014 the high street stalwart earmarked China, Russia, India, the Middle East and Western Europe for international expansion. Chief Exec Marc Bolland cited plans to open 250 new stores overseas in three years. The aim was to boost international sales by a quarter and […]

Retail Asia20/10/2015

Business executives from global clothing giants H&M Inditex and Gap have canceled trips to Dhaka this month after the killings of two foreigners, industry sources said, causing anxiety for Bangladesh’s $25 billion garment export sector. Bangladeshi suppliers to the world’s top brands said they didn’t expect the disruptions to hurt their orders for the year-end […]

Retail Asia17/09/2015

UK department store chain Marks & Spencer says it will slow its expansion plans in Greater China due to the economic and political turmoil in the two markets. The British retailer currently has 20 stores in Hong Kong and 10 in China and had been planning significantly more. Back in 2014, CEO Marc Bolland set […]

Retail Asia25/08/2015

UK-based department store retailer Marks & Spencer has opened a second store in Vietnam’s largest city, Ho Chi Minh. Marks & Spencer Vietnam plans to have 20 stores trading in the country by 2020, focused on selling womenswear and menswear. The new store is at Crescent Mall in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 7, a […]

Retail Asia07/08/2015

Asif Ahmad, the UK ambassador to the Philippines, is one of the busiest diplomats in the country, as he leads, almost on a weekly basis, the opening of new outlets put up by dozens of British companies which are taking advantage of the rapidly growing consumer market and improved purchasing power of Filipinos. Ahmad, the […]

Retail Asia03/08/2015

A group of former executives of high profile British retail brands are planning to launch a department store online in China, via JD.com. The creators of the virtual department store to be called The Jack Russell Emporium are ex Marks & Spencer, Burberry and Jonathan Saunders. The new store will go live in September. It […]

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First Marks & Spencer Beijing store opens

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