o In August 2012, M&S opened Cheshire Oaks, its new 151,000 sq ft flagship store for the North West, second in size only to the Group’s Marble Arch store in London and serving a catchment area of over 1.3 million people.
o In FY12 the Group opened 25 M&S Simply Food stores. A number of these are run under franchise agreements including Select Service Partner (SSP) which runs 34 Simply Food outlets at rail locations, six at airports, alongside five retail outlets and four cafés in UK hospitals.