Marks & Spencer: version 1
Saved 2026-09-17 11:41 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **product/00000000011501 — Curiously Strong Mints 50 g (Marks & Spencer)**, from the wanted queue (old-site title "curiously strong mints", captured 2009). **Identity settled from the bars, not. This is the current version.
Source of v1
# Marks & Spencer <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Marks & Spencer
disambiguation: Marks and Spencer p.l.c., the British retailer and the food business operator named on M&S own-label packs
legal_name: Marks and Spencer p.l.c.
country: GB
website: https://www.marksandspencer.com
register_ids: GB-CH:00214436
founded: 1926-06-17
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | --------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/marks-spencer-group | global | 2016-04-06 | | | sourced | ^ch-ms | Companies House persons with significant control: Marks And Spencer Group Plc, registration number 04256886, ownership of 75 per cent or more of the shares and of the voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors, notified 6 April 2016 |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------ | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Marks and Spencer p.l.c. | legal | en | | |
| MARKS AND SPENCER P.L.C. | search | en | | |
| M&S | name | en | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | ---------------------------- | ---------------------------- | -------- |
| pack-2015 | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/000/000/001/1501/4.jpg | Back of the 50 g tin, later label (artwork code 7021): English, French and Dutch ingredient statements, nutrition line, Made in the Netherlands, M&S address and the barcode | 2026-09-17 | Open Food Facts | pack | 2015-06-27 | 4 | Back of tin | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| ch-ms | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00214436/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: MARKS AND SPENCER P.L.C. (00214436), persons with significant control | 2026-09-17 | Companies House | registry | | 00214436 | | Open Government Licence v3.0 | | |
| wiki-ms | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marks_%26_Spencer | Wikipedia: Marks & Spencer | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
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## About <!--about-->
Marks and Spencer p.l.c. is the operating company of the British retailer M&S, incorporated on 17 June 1926 and registered at Companies House under number 00214436, with its registered office at Waterside House, 35 North Wharf Road, London.[^ch-ms] The business itself dates from 1884, when Michael Marks opened a penny bazaar on Leeds Kirkgate Market and later took the bookkeeper Thomas Spencer as his partner.[^wiki-ms] It is the company printed on M&S own-label food: the Curiously Strong Mints tin carries a copyright line for Marks and Spencer plc at PO Box 3339, Chester CH99 9QS, which makes it the food business operator for that pack.[^pack-2015]
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