M&S to go Dutch

Marks & Spencer is looking to the Netherlands for the next step in its European expansion

plan.

The FTSE 100 retailer's property team has been looking at cities including Rotterdam and The Hague. Marc Bolland, the chief executive of Marks & Spencer, is from the Netherlands, and moved to the UK in 2006 when he joined Morrisons, the supermarket chain.

If a store is secured in the Netherlands the expansion will run alongside the high street retailer's plans in France.