Stuart Rose
Stuart Rose
Stuart Alan Ransom Rose, Baron Rose of Monewdenis an English businessman, who was the executive chairman of the British retailer Marks & Spencer. Following the appointment of Marc Bolland in May 2010, Rose stepped down as executive chairman at the end of July 2010 and remained as chairman until early 2011 when he was replaced by Robert Swannell. He was knighted in 2008 for his services to the retail industry, and created a Conservative Life Peer on 17 September 2014,...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth17 March 1949
We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.
Clearly it would be quite nice to get to 400 pence (but) that will only be a journey. The market will decide...what our earnings or potential earnings are worth and price us accordingly,
We have been at pains to point out that we've got the critical three months to Christmas to go. If we get to January and we're on a similar sort of track, then we can start talking about a recovery.
There are a lot of very busy blokes about who wear a suit for work, who go through a lot of wear and tear and who'll want this because of convenience, The customer is time-compressed and, in middle America, also pocket-book compressed.
Our job now is to get the conversion rate (from footfall to sales ratio) up. We have to ask, 'Are there enough things to excite you?' We didn't get it right last year; our research on the in-store environment was frankly a bit disappointing,
I think the gear could stand scrutiny against any other designers we have seen so far this week.
Life moves on. It's a bit like having a row with your girlfriend; if you still love her you still love her,
I would think that we're probably taking back some market share back off (key rival) Next (NXTNXT) as well,
We have already received such positive feedback from customers we will be extending the range further this autumn.
I don't want to put any odds on it (continuing) at all...we're still talking.
Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me.
When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.
I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.
If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.