<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> marksandspencer.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Marks and Spencer plc (also known as M&S) is a major British multinational retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London . It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index . </P> <P> It specialises in the selling of clothing, home products and luxury food products . M&S was founded in 1884 by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in Leeds . The company also began to sell branded goods like Kellogg's Corn Flakes in November 2008 . M&S currently has 959 stores across the U.K including 615 that only sell food products . </P> <P> In 1998, the company became the first British retailer to make a pre-tax profit of over £ 1 billion, although subsequently it went into a sudden slump, which took the company, its shareholders, who included hundreds of thousands of small investors, and nearly all retail analysts and business journalists, by surprise . In November 2009, it was announced that Marc Bolland, formerly of Morrisons, would take over as chief executive from executive chairman Stuart Rose in early 2010; Rose remained in the role of non-executive chairman until he was replaced by Robert Swannell in January 2011 . </P>

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