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EXTENDING OUR RANGE
the right shopping environment is crucial to building our
increasingly successful business in home furnishings, kitchenware and furniture.
The opening of our M arks & Spencer Home store in York helped us to evolve our
offer through enhanced layout, dedicated facilities and specially trained staff. As
Group footage increases, we will be able to extend this approach to a growing
number of substantial home
furnishings departments.
Kitchenware remains very
strong with marked growth in cookware. This helps in turn to boost our wedding
list business, which remains the UK’s largest own-brand bridal registry service.
Customers have responded well to the expanding range of non-iron bedding
and we retain market leadership in supersoft bath towels. Furniture and
furnishings are benefiting from greater display space and increasing customer
awareness. We are also seeing growth in home accessories such as candles, picture
frames and cushions.
Home furnishings
Creating
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