Mark’s business flourished, and in 1894 , he took Thomas Spencer into partnership. By 1903 when spencer retired, the company boasted 36 market b bazaars and shops. In that year, Marks and Spencer,Ltd. Was formed, with control entirely in the Marks and Spencer families. Spencer died in 1905, Michael Marks in 1907. After Marks’s death, control of M&S temporarily passed out of family hands.