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Author: Judi Bevan
ISBN13: 978-1861974310
Title: The Rise And Fall Of Marks & Spencer
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Publisher: Profile Books Ltd; Updated edition (March 30, 2005)
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The Rise And Fall Of Marks & Spencer by Judi Bevan



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Marks & Spencer is more than a British retailer of smart fashions at good value; it has deep roots in the British psyche. Generations have worked for the company or its suppliers, taking pride in its successes and suffering through its troubles. Judi Bevan captures that story in this lively, compelling history, introducing you to all of its executives and primary players

Marks & Spencer is more than a British retailer of smart fashions at good value; it has deep roots in the British psyche. Judi Bevan captures that story in this lively, compelling history, introducing you to all of its executives and primary players. The store changed over time as the founders and their descendants finally gave way to professional managers who viewed M&S as a vehicle for personal ambition rather than as a family institution. To be fair, the world.

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The fluctuating fortunes of retailer Marks & Spencer are laid bare in a new book from journalist Judi Bevan. The Rise and Fall of Marks & Spencer" discloses clandestine attempts to merge with GUS and Safeway, as well as juicy nuggets about the company's founders and chairmen. Ms Bevan uncovers an attempted merger.

Judi Bevan's The Rise & Fall of Marks & Spencer tells the storyof how the distinctively bright green figurehead of British retail got the blues. From humble beginnings, Marks & Spencer became the UK's leading department store, famous for its ready meals, woolly jumpers and no-frills underwear. However, the British chain suffered a dramatic reversal of fortune starting in the late 1990s, with tumbling profits, poor sales and a series of boardroom bust-ups

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Judi Bevan's The Rise and Fall of Marks & Spencer, which came out in 2001, is the best book on shopkeeping in Britain in modern times. It is the story of Richard Greenbury, a man gifted in all the Marks & Spencer virtues, who yet managed to ruin a proud and long-lived company. Six years after his departure, Marks & Spencer is a basket case. Her new book, which is a sort of pendant and tells the story of the big British supermarkets that now trade as Tesco, Asda, J Sainsbury and Wm Morrison, is not so good.

Marks and Spencer was founded by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in 1884. Initially a penny bazaar stall on Leeds Kirkgate Market, by 1900 the company had thirty-six branches, which included twenty-four market stalls and twelve shops. 13 These were mainly situated in northern England in towns and cities such as Wigan, Huddersfield, and Wakefield but there were also three shops in London and market stalls in Cardiff and Bath. 11 Judi Bevan, The Rise and Fall of Marks & Spencer (London: Profile Books, 2001). Stuart Rose was appointed as Chief Executive of Marks and Spencer in 2004.

Interesting book about the rise and fall of Marks and Spencer - does what it says on the tin! For students of retail and anyone who's ever been in Marks and Sparks. Why did Marks & Spencer, once Britain's most admired retailer and most successful business, collapse so precipitously, and how long will it last for? All is revealed in this fully updated version of Judi Bevan's award-winning history.

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Judi Bevan has won the WHSmith Book Award for the best business book of 2002. The Rise and Fall of Marks and Spencer is out now in paperback and has been completely updated with an entirely new chapter assessing the apparent recovery, the success of the new George Davies 'Per Una' range and the fresh approaches of a powerful new team at the top - Roger Holmes (Head of UK Retail), Yasmin Yusuf (Director of Women's Clothing), Steve Longdon (Women's Clothing) and Barry Stevenson (Director of UK Stores). All the main historical players are here too, from the Jewish founders who dominated the company for nearly a century through the brilliant, intimidating Richard Greenbury and hapless Peter Salsbury to the fearsome triumvirate - Luc Vandevelde, Roger Holmes and, of course, George Davies. In this gripping history of the rise and fall, and now slow revival of Marks and Spencer, the in-fighting, rampant corridor creeping, takeover attempts - you name it - are set down in stone with perfect accuracy.
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Aloo
While Marks & Spencer is an iconic retailer in Britain and in many other countries around the world, they are unknown in the United States. While they made a disastrous purchase of Brooks Brothers, which they sold off for less than a third of their purchase price, they have stayed out of the United States. I found their story to be quite interesting, but then I am a bit of an Anglophile and made many business and personal trips to London and the Midlands during the 1990s.

The firm began as a tiny store in the last quarter of the 19th Century and grew rapidly. The two founders both died young, and it was the founder's son, Simon Marks, who led the firm for 48 years and made it into what it became in the British culture. Of course, we must also include Israel Sieff, who was Simon's lifelong friend and a charismatic counterpart to Lord Simon's driven personality.

The foundational principles of Marks & Spencer were product, people, and property. They had long term relations with their manufacturers and in many cases they bought everything the supplier could make in order to assure delivery, quality, and to sustain the British textile industry. The company also had a paternalistic and warm attitude towards its employees. They also bought the land on which their stores were built. The idea of freehold land is a much bigger deal in Britain than it is here in the United States where land is much more available and relatively cheap.

After the founding families stopped running the company, the professional managers changed policies that soon got the company into difficulty and it began to decline. While there were short periods of recover, it was not until the current chairman, Stuart Rose, aimed at restoring the core principles of Marks & Spencer and their fortunes truly revived.

Very good business biography and an interesting read. Why not take a look at a business that has been successful for more than a century and who operates in a very different way than most American businesses?

Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI
Porgisk
Marks & Spencer is more than a British retailer of smart fashions at good value; it has deep roots in the British psyche. Generations have worked for the company or its suppliers, taking pride in its successes and suffering through its troubles. Judi Bevan captures that story in this lively, compelling history, introducing you to all of its executives and primary players. The store changed over time as the founders and their descendants finally gave way to professional managers who viewed M&S as a vehicle for personal ambition rather than as a family institution. To be fair, the world was changing, but the push for profits at all costs betrayed the company's principles. Chairman Stuart Rose has revived the company's culture while helping it flourish in a modern competitive environment. Therein lies a tale that getAbstract warmly recommends.
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