London-based Marks & Spencer (a.k.a. "M & S" or "Marks & Sparks") opened a store at BRENT CROSS CENTRE in 1976. The chain had started in Leeds in 1884. In the mid-2020s, there were 1,053 stores in operation in the United Kingdom (904 of these in Great Britain). There were also 434 M & S stores in fourteen nations around the globe.
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