Viewpoint: M&S adrift despite a decade of turnaround talk
By Leonie Barrie | 12 July 2012
Like a vast, slow-moving and rather unwieldy tanker, battered and lashed by stormy seas, the UK's largest clothing retailer Marks & Spencer has done much over the past decade to try to steady its business.
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