Tag: M&S

M&S Expands Food Waste Scheme Turning Surplus Loaves Into Frozen Garlic Bread To 125 More Stores

Stuart Mitchell

M&S is expanding its frozen garlic bread food waste initiative to an additional 125 stores this April. At the end of each day, unsold baguettes and boules – baked in-store daily – are prepared and filled with garlic butter, and then sold as frozen garlic bread from £1, with an extended shelf life of 30 days. The scheme is currently live in 253 stores and launched in 2020 following a successful trial. Since then, M&S has sold 2.1m of the re-purposed loaves with the best-selling store M&S Nottingham Giltbrook. Due…

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Gifts That Give: M&S Puts Community at Heart Of This Year’s Clothing & Home Christmas Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

With just 50 days to go until the big day, M&S has unveiled its Christmas Clothing & Home campaign for 2022, following the launch of the Christmas Food campaign on Wednesday 2nd November. The 2022 campaign – Gifts that Give A true celebration of togetherness and community, the 2022 campaign joyfully brings-to-life how a gift given from M&S this Christmas will keep on giving, with the retailer donating £1 million to 1,000 community groups and good causes through Neighbourly – a unique giving platform M&S has worked with since 2015.…

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M&S Toilet Roll Packaging With Bowel Cancer Symptom Now Available In-Store

Stuart Mitchell

All M&S own-brand toilet roll packaging now features bowel cancer symptoms to encourage customers to contact their doctor if things don’t feel right.  Alongside a Bowel Cancer UK symptoms infographic, a QR code on the packaging redirects customers to the charity’s website to find out more about symptoms and the help available.   The retailer announced earlier this year it was teaming up with Bowel Cancer UK to raise awareness of symptoms, with plans to add symptoms onto toilet roll packaging and signage into customer and colleague toilets – which was…

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M&S Teams Up With Agrisound To Boost Pollinator Activity On British Farms

Stuart Mitchell

M&S have announced a three-year collaboration with agri-tech start up AgriSound, designed to help farmers better manage pollinators and increase crop yields.  The collaboration will see two M&S Select Farms, Plumford in Kent and G’s Growers in Cambridgeshire, install in-field sensors for three years, allowing them to track the number of pollinators visiting their farm in real-time and target specific interventions for improving numbers.  AgriSound are biodiversity experts, based in York, that have developed specialist listening devices, which combine acoustic technology and environmental sensors to monitor the density of key…

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M&S Launches First Sustainability-Focused Innovation Challenge

Stuart Mitchell

M&S has announced the launch of its inaugural sustainability innovation challenge for start-ups, with the retailer looking to work with tech-focused partners in its efforts to build a sustainable future and achieve its net zero by 2040 goal.  Alongside the innovation and investment firm True, M&S’s Ignite team – the home of open innovation at M&S – is looking for ideas and technologies that can encourage more sustainable behaviours amongst its customers, as well as solutions that can help M&S achieve further efficiencies in its agricultural supply chains. The innovation…

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