Tag: Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer Raises Over £155k For Prostate Cancer UK After Teaming Up With Olympic Champion Sir Chris Hoy

Stuart Mitchell

Thanks to the incredible support from customers and colleagues, Marks & Spencer has raised over £155,000 for Prostate Cancer UK as part of campaign to encourage more men to get checked for prostate cancer, as it sells over 40,000 packs of Autograph pants. In February, M&S announced it had teamed up with Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy and Prostate Cancer UK to encourage more men to take ‘a brief check’ for prostate cancer. The six-week campaign saw M&S leverage its UK market leading position in men’s underwear, along with its…

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M&S Launches Young Designer Competition With Youngminds To Support Young People’s Mental Health

Stuart Mitchell

M&S and YoungMinds have announced a competition for young people to create a winning design for this year’s M&S and YoungMinds Hello Yellow kidswear collection. Hello Yellow marks World Mental Health Day on 10th October. Every year for Hello Yellow, YoungMinds calls on teachers, pupils, parents and colleagues to wear yellow on the day, to show young people that they are not alone with their mental health. Spearheaded by M&S x YoungMinds Partnership Ambassador and mum Rochelle Humes, this Children’s Mental Health Week, the competition invites young people across the UK…

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M&S Drives Carbon Reductions With Its First Autonomous Field Trial

Stuart Mitchell

M&S has announced the initial results from first retailer run ‘autonomous field’ trial, which will see the retailer selling lower carbon parsnips later this year.  the first retailer to farm and sell a lower carbon vegetable following an ‘autonomous field’ trial.   In partnership with long-term supplier, Huntapac, the first fully autonomously farmed parsnips will be available in selected M&S stores this November. To create these lower carbon parsnips, the team has brought together all the latest technology to farm with a significantly lower environmental impact. The technology includes two robots…

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M&S takes another step towards removing 1 billion units of plastic as it becomes first retailer to use paper packaging on garlic baguettes

Stuart Mitchell

Marks & Spencer has announced it is  the first UK retailer to move to paper packaging on garlic baguettes, removing 5.5 million units of plastic. All of M&S’ single and twin garlic baguettes are now available in FSC approved paper packaging which can be easily recycled as paper at-home. A popular choice with M&S customers, the single garlic baguette is M&S’ biggest seller in garlic breads selling 4.3 million units each year. Reducing plastic packaging is one of the key issues M&S customers care strongly about and the retailer has…

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M&S Becomes First UK High Street Retailer To Introduce Range Of Stoma Knickers

Stuart Mitchell

M&S – the UK’s largest knicker retailer – is proud to be introducing a range of knickers for people with stomas; a first for a UK High Street retailer. Today, over 200,000 people are living with a stoma in the UK and this essential product – underwear – has not been easily accessible to customers on the UK High Street. As the UK market leader in lingerie – selling over 60 million pairs of knickers a year – M&S has worked with the support of Colostomy UK to bring together…

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