Hamburg. (bm) Marks and Spencer PLC (M+S) announced the next tranche of UK stores proposed for closure or set to close as it reshapes its UK store estate in line with its target to take at least a third of sales online. M+S will now close over 100 stores in total by 2022, including 21 that have already closed. At the end of 2017/2018 M+S had 1’035 stores in the UK (figure correct as of 2018-03-31). Other topics of the week:
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