Tag: Marks & Spencer

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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M&S Launches Clothing Repair Service To Give Quality Clothes ‘Another Life’ Through Plan A

Stuart Mitchell

Marks & Spencer has announced it will offer a dedicated clothing repair service for the first time.  With new insight from M&S revealing only 10% of the population is confident enough to repair clothing themselves and 60% of consumers looking for retailers to offer more services which support them to lower their carbon footprint, M&S is partnering with clothing repair and alterations experts, SOJO.  Founded in 2021 by Josephine Philips, SOJO is on a mission to make tailoring and repairs more accessible. Today, the small but growing team is made…

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M&S Food Invests Over £1 Million In Donating Bespoke Meals For Redistribution

Stuart Mitchell

Marks & Spencer has announced it is investing over £1 million in a brand-new way of addressing food poverty. By redistributing food directly from its supply chain, the retailer has created three new meals which will be distributed to families in need via FareShare – the UK’s largest charity fighting food insecurity and waste – as part of the Coronation Food Project, inspired by His Majesty King Charles III. From September, M&S will be sending the specially developed products to FareShare to distribute through its national network. Developed by M&S…

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M&S innovating its way to Net Zero through new Plan A partnership funding

Stuart Mitchell

Marks & Spencer has announced a string of new investments in collaborative, pioneering projects, funded through its Plan A Accelerator Fund, to help achieve its Net Zero by 2040 goals. The UK’s most trusted brand, famous for new and exciting products, is now turning its market-leading approach to innovation to tackle climate change. Introduced as part of its ambition to be the most trusted retailer, M&S’s industry-leading, fully integrated sustainability plan ‘Plan A’ was an innovation in itself when it launched back in 2007, well before most mainstream businesses were…

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M&S pioneers new mental health training to help colleagues support young people

Stuart Mitchell

During last month’s Children’s Mental Health Week (5-11th February 2024), M&S launched a new and unique Trusted Adult training to help its 65,000 colleagues learn more about how to support the young people in their lives. The online voluntary training has been created as part of the retailer’s partnership with leading mental health charity for young people, YoungMinds. Through the training, colleagues will develop skills and understanding to support them in having conversations with young people around how they are feeling and help prevent them from reaching the point of…

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