Clothing sales slump at M&S in Q1 FY'12

Existing guidance for the financial year 2012/13 remains unchanged.

Outlook

While we expect the short term trading outlook to continue to be challenging, we are making strong progress against our goal of becoming an international, multi-channel retailer.

Marks and Spencer Group plc will report its half year results for the 26 weeks ending 29 September 2012, on 6 November 2012.

Marks & Spencer (M&S)