Marks Spencer was among only a few retailers to make gains, closing up 2p at 382p after the chief executive Stuart Rose unveiled the group's Cardinal Place store, its first new opening in central London for over a decade. There is little doubt that MS will achieve top of the range estimates, even if the all-important third-quarter like-for-like sales are down 4 on non-food, ... what we worry about is the ability to grow profits.
Quotes about non-food (6 Quotes)
We have delivered both food and non-food items and we plan to move more relief supplies there because the number of those displaced is increasing.
The most critical needs include medicine, blankets, rehabilitation of houses as well as non-food items such as kitchen utensils.
Since the earthquake struck in October, these helicopters have been crucial in transporting food and non-food items, like medicine and warm clothing and they have helped to prevent many deaths.
The trucks will transport food and non-food items urgently needed by the hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom have been without food and shelter since the quake struck.
However, it was agreed that any further consideration of these alternatives needed to be informed by the performance of the non-food brands through the all-important Christmas period and the balance of the 2003 financial year,