{"id":3183,"date":"2013-11-09T12:09:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T06:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2013-11-09T12:09:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T06:39:36","slug":"marks-spencer-sales-jump-28-per-cent-in-indian-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/marks-spencer-sales-jump-28-per-cent-in-indian-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Marks &#038; Spencer sales jump 28 per cent in Indian market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Marks-Spencer-store-0061.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3185 alignleft\" title=\"Marks--Spencer-store-006\" src=\"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Marks-Spencer-store-0061.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a>British retailer Marks &amp; Spencer (M&amp;S) has reported a 28.1 per cent jump in sales in Indian market for the first half of 2013-14 financial year, ended September 30.<\/p>\n<p>Global revenues rose 11.2 per cent to 600 million British pounds for same period as the retailer reported a 13.5 per cent increase in profit after tax to 249.6 million British pounds during the six month period.<br \/>\n&#8220;We saw good growth in our priority markets of India and China and with our franchise partners in the Middle-East and Asia,&#8221; the company said in a statement.<br \/>\nM&amp;S that it is &#8220;focusing on driving growth in key priority territories of India and China&#8221;. The company, which operates 35 stores in India, will open nine more stores in the second half of the current financial year, it said.<br \/>\nInternational operating profit, however, was down 6.2 per cent to 51.1 million British pounds. The company attributed the fall to continuing pressures in Ireland, among other things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ms-top-banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3186\" title=\"ms-top-banner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ms-top-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: businesstoday.intoday <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British retailer Marks &amp; Spencer (M&amp;S) has reported a 28.1 per cent jump in sales in Indian market for the first half of 2013-14 financial year, ended September 30. Global&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franchise-news","list-style-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}