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Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer is a leading British retailer of food, clothing, beauty, and homeware, with its headquarters in London. The company was founded in 1884 and currently has 959 stores across the UK. In 2022, it employs around 66,210 people across its stores, support centres, logistics operations and international teams, and reported over USD 13,537 billion in revenue.

Summary

Marks & Spencer performs well overall and ranks 14th in the apparel sector with a score of 32.4 out of 100. Its best performance is in the health and well-being measurement area, where it ranks fourth. It has an opportunity to improve in the representation measurement area, where its performance falls below average.

Marks & Spencer is one of the 13 companies that assesses and prioritises gender-related human rights impacts as being salient. Like many other companies, it performs well on having a public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, as well as on having a violence and harassment policy for its employees and requiring its suppliers to have an effective remediation process for addressing violence and harassment grievances of their workers.

Marks & Spencer has an opportunity to disclose its global primary and secondary carer leave policy, as well as to disclose its remediation process for addressing violence and harassment grievances in the workplace.

Ranking position: #22 /112
Total score: 32.4 /100

Measurement area	Score	Rank (0-112)
Governance and strategy	#1 8.6 /20	#18
Representation	#1 2.6 /17.5	#73
Compensation and benefits	#1 3.5 /17.5	#30
Health and well-being	#1 10.9 /17.5	#4
Violence and harassment	#1 4.4 /17.5	#33
Marketplace and community	#1 2.5 /10	#38
Total score	32.4 /100	#22

Value chain element	Score
Workplace	8.6 /35
Supply chain	12.8 /35

Segment
Apparel	#14

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More about the company

Headquarters: Leeds, United Kingdom
Number of employees: 66210
Percentage of female employees: 69%
Group revenue: USD 13,537 billion
Ownership structure: Publicly listed
Website: https://www.marksandspencer.com/