Department store chain Marks & Spencer PLC reported its pretax profit sank 13.7 percent this past year as it struggled to rebound from a series of setbacks and recoup some of its past glory as a pillar of British retailing.
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Jospin said he considered the job cuts announced at France's Danone food group and the British chain Marks & Spencer unacceptable, and said he would discuss how to " make it more expensive for profitable companies to fire workers ."
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Jospin said he considered the job cuts announced at France's Danone food group and the British chain Marks & amp; Spencer unacceptable, and said he would discuss how to " make it more expensive for profitable companies to fire workers ."
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Among retailers, U . K . food and clothing chain Marks & amp; Spencer slipped 0 . 8 percent to 350 pence after it posted a 10 percent decline in first-half profit, warned of deteriorating trading conditions and halved its executive board.
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Department store chain Marks & amp; Spencer PLC reported its pretax profit sank 13 . 7 percent this past year as it struggled to rebound from a series of setbacks and recoup some of its past glory as a pillar of British retailing.
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British retail chain Marks and Spencer hedged its bets by renting 30, 000 square feet ( 2, 700 square meters ) of space, only to build an 18, 000 square-foot ( 1, 600-square-meter ) store and sealing off the rest to await rosier days.
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According to local legend, this was the stone to which Macbeth's witches were chained, and it does indeed bear chain marks . " MacBeth's Castle " ( a hill fort ) can be found at the nearby village of Collace, near the Council Quarry on the Sidlaws.
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British food and clothing chain Marks & Spencer PLC said Monday it would offer to buy back up to 2.3 billion pounds ( US $ 4.25 billion ) in shares from investors as part of a review aimed at fending off a takeover bid by retail entrepreneur Philip Green.
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An otherwise inexplicable kink in the chain marks a shift in the movement of the Pacific plate some 47 million years ago, from a northward to a more northwesterly direction, and the kink has been presented in geology texts as an example of how a tectonic plate can shift direction comparatively suddenly.
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British food and clothing chain Marks & amp; Spencer PLC said Monday it would offer to buy back up to 2 . 3 billion pounds ( US $ 4 . 25 billion ) in shares from investors as part of a review aimed at fending off a takeover bid by retail entrepreneur Philip Green.
