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• We announce second major store for the City of London to open
in Fenchurch Street in 2001.
• We unveil plans for the biggest M & S store in the world – 200,000 sq ft of
selling space in the centre of M anchester – to open in 1999.
• At the AGM , the Chairman announces the purchase from
Littlewoods of 19 stores in prime high street locations.
• We reveal plans for five further stores for Germany – in Dortmund,
Wuppertal, Essen and two in Frankfurt.
• We start to roll out a new-generation till system in the UK and
Continental Europe.
• Work begins on converting Littlewoods stores to create
600,000 sq ft of extra selling space.
• We launch the first M & S mail order clothing catalogue.
• Cribbs Causeway, 102,000 sq ft department store, opens near Bristol.
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THE QUEEN’S AWARD FOR
EXPORT ACHIEVEMENT 1995 1997
THE QUEEN’S AWARD FOR
TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENT 1996 The British Quality of Management Award
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
OUR £2.2 BILLIO N EXPANSIO N PLAN
1997-98 THE STORY SO FAR . . .
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