press release Issued: 22nd May 2012 MARKS AND SPENCER GROUP PLC FULL YEAR RESULTS 2011/12 - 52 WEEKS ENDED 31 MARCH 2012 Marks & Spencer performed well in a challenging economic environment and made good progress in delivering our strategy Final results: • • • • • • • • • Group sales up 2.0% at £9.9bn Total UK sales +1.5%: Food +3.9%; General Merchandise -0.9% (Clothing +0.2%‚ Home -10.0%) Like-for-like UK sales +0.3%: Food +2.1%; General Merchandise -1.8% International sales +5.8% Multi-channel
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Marks & Spencer is aiming to make its website more shoppable with the launch of a new content-focused ecommerce offering that it hopes will turnaround its clothing and homeware business after several quarters of declining sales. Marks & Spencer’s new tablet app The M&S.com website is designed to offer a “flagship experience” of M&S’s products. It has been more than three years in development and has been led by executive director of multi-channel and ecommerce and former Tesco.com CEO
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Book One: The Lost Hero The Heroes of Olympus‚ Book Two: The Son of Neptune ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many thanks to Seán Hemingway‚ curator of Greek and Roman antiquities at the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ New York‚ for helping me follow the Mark of Athena to its source. Copyright © 2012 by Rick Riordan All rights reserved. Published by Disney • Hyperion Books‚ an imprint of Disney Book Group. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means‚ electronic
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Where Has All The Water Gone? Mark Holston There were many water-related issues in South America that Holston stated in the article. “The list of concerns is long and will require higher levels of public awareness and involvement‚ innovative approaches to problem solving‚ and better use of available funds and technology to reverse trends of misuse‚ mismanagement‚ and outright neglect.” (103) One of the challenges was protecting an adequate amount of clean water for human needs and finding huge
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world has relied on journalism as a form of gathering news and information. There are different types of journalism‚ including: investigative‚ news‚ reviews‚ columns and feature writing. The way people acquired this information has changed over the years and for the better of course. Technology has allowed for new innovations in the industry and better ways of transmitting news to the world. However‚ the main purpose of journalism is defined by something more basic‚ journalism focuses on the function
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In 1957‚ Bobby Cain was the first black graduate of a court-ordered desegregated public school in the South. There were 700 white students registered at Clinton High School in Tennessee when Cain started his then-senior year. Cain was one of twelve black students.“When people start talking about things that have happened in civil rights‚ they talk about Little Rock and other areas and for some unknown reason they have not spoken about Clinton‚” he says. “We were greeted with a throng of people
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Public Relations Review 30 (2004) 493–502 Public relations and journalism educators’ perceptions of media relations Thomasena Shaw∗ ‚ Candace White1 School of Advertising and Public Relations‚ University of Tennessee‚ Knoxville‚ TN 37996‚ USA Received 4 December 2003; received in revised form 5 August 2004; accepted 20 August 2004 Abstract A complex relationship exists between journalists and public relations practitioners. A number of researchers claim that prejudice against public relations is
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Pulitzer was a man of many accomplishments and few failures. However‚ there was one failure in particular that especially came to light during his life‚ and this was his founding of the practice of yellow journalism. In 1883 he purchased the New York World for $346‚000 from Jay Gould‚ and appointed himself the manager. With Pulitzer in charge‚ the World’s circulation grew from 15‚000 to 600‚000‚ making it the largest newspaper in the United States. Meanwhile Joseph’s brother‚ Albert Pulitzer‚ did
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Gertrude‚ from Shakespeare’s play‚ Hamlet‚ is characterized with lust‚ as Gertrude marries her late husband’s brother a few months after his death to satisfy her sexual desires and crave for power. This theme of lust and desire is common in many of Tennessee Williams’ plays. The symbolic titles of A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire explore the themes of homosexuality‚ deception‚ lust‚ and how desire leaves one unable to overcome reality‚ in
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Mark 9 (ESV) I. Mount of Transfiguration. 1 And he said to them‚ “Truly‚ I say to you‚ there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.” 2 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James
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