Buy this book on-line BRIGGS**, ASA: : MARKS & SPENCER 1884-1984 - A CENTENARY HISTORY.**LONDON.OCTOPUS BOOKS LTD (for M&S),1984. ISBN 0906320054.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Qrto, green cloth bds,gilt letters to spine/
backstrip.Qrto,128pp,b/w+colour illus+
photographs.
This history of M&S published to celebrate company's hundred years.A unique nostalgic record in words and pictures of a facsinating,often dramatic story of a struggle and change.It begins on a trestle table in a Leeds open market and ends with a business that is,without exaggeration, a household name - 'M&S'.The text by an eminent social historian,examines this unique organisation in depth.Looks at key aspects of the company's developements:the influences that shaped its growth;the huge variety of goods sold; the constantly changing world of shops and shopping to which it had to respond and adapt.A story about people,reminescences of those who worked for,supplied and known M&S over many years.A mass of new information is recorded and the hundreds of illustrations include many recently discovered historical documents.
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