Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer plc
Company type	Public limited company
Traded as	LSE: MKS; FTSE 250 Component
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Archie Norman; (Chairman); Stuart Machin; (Chief Executive); Katie Bickerstaffe; (Co-Chief Executive);
Website	marksandspencer.com

Marks and Spencer plc (also known as M&S) is a major British retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index

It specialises in the selling of clothing, home products and luxury food products. M&S was founded in 1884 by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in Leeds.^[3] It has 979 stores across the U.K. including 615 that only sell food products.^[4]

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Marks and Spencer on Briggate, not far from its original branch in Leeds
The original penny bazaar setup by Marks & Spencer is still in operation in Leeds Kirkgate Market
Representation of historic store from the 1930s, Bekonscot model village, UK
A Marks & Spencer store in Central, Hong Kong
A Marks & Spencer store in Times Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
M&S shop in Inverness in 1998
The interior of a branch in Wakefield, West Yorkshire in 2020
Waterside House, 35 North Wharf Road, London
M&S store on Birmingham High Street
M&S White City in Westfield London (2014), one of the company's largest stores