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Marks & Spencer plc

Type	Public limited company
Traded as	LSE: MKS FTSE 100 Component
Industry	Retail
Founded	1884; 140 years ago (1884) Leeds, United Kingdom
Founder	Sir Michael Marks Thomas Spencer
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Archie Norman (Chairman) Steve Rowe (CEO)
Revenue	£10.622 billion (2017)
Operating income	£690.6 million (2017)
Net income	£115.7 million (2017)
Number of employees	84,939 (2017)

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 100 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. It has 979 stores across the U.K. including 615 that only sell food products.

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Marks and Spencer on Briggate, not far from its original branch in Leeds.
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) is one of the company's largest stores.
A Marks & Spencer branch in Athens
M&S Simply Food in Banstead, Surrey
An M&S Food to Go store in Sutton station, Sutton, London
Per Una's logo, three hearts
An M&S store with old signage, c. 1990

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