{"id":424,"date":"2011-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/?p=424"},"modified":"2014-03-06T07:16:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T07:16:38","slug":"marks-spencer-opens-second-store-in-pune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/marks-spencer-opens-second-store-in-pune\/","title":{"rendered":"Marks &#038; Spencer opens second store in Pune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Marks-Spencer-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"Marks &amp; Spencer\" title=\"Marks &amp; Spencer\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Marks-Spencer-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Marks-Spencer.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Marks &#038; Spencer (M&#038;S), the UK-based apparel retailer, has opened a new store at the Market City Mall in Pune, India. This is the retailer&#8217;s second store in the city. Spread across 19,000 sq. ft of retail space, the new store will showcase a range of fashion and accessories across women&#8217;s wear, men&#8217;s wear and kids wear. Popular M&#038;S fashion ranges will include: Limited Collection, per una and Blue Harbour.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Jones, CEO, Marks &#038; Spencer Reliance India,said &#8220;Pune offers a good opportunity to grow the business in India with a population of over nine million. M&#038;S has stepped up efforts to increase local sourcing and now procures over 50% to offer the right products at the right prices.&#8221; Marks &#038; Spencer now has 21 stores in India and also plans to open eight new outlets this year.<\/p>\n<iframe src='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.franchisemart.in%2Ffranchise%2Fmarks-spencer-opens-second-store-in-pune%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=280&amp;action=recommend&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=30' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; height:30px' allowTransparency='true'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marks &#038; Spencer (M&#038;S), the UK-based apparel retailer, has opened a new store at the Market City Mall in Pune, India.<\/p>\n<iframe src='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.franchisemart.in%2Ffranchise%2Fmarks-spencer-opens-second-store-in-pune%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=280&amp;action=recommend&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=30' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; height:30px' allowTransparency='true'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[143,145,830,941,211,300,577,852,146,144,979],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-news","tag-apparel-retailer","tag-city-mall","tag-franchise","tag-franchise-business","tag-franchise-mart","tag-franchise-network","tag-google","tag-india","tag-marks-spencer","tag-martin-jones","tag-pune","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}