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Having made the high-street stalwart fashionable again and steered its 32 million customers through one of the worst ever cyber attacks in the UK, the CEO is looking forward to some Christmas cheer. There is just one dark cloud on the horizon, he tells Geordie Greig
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Looking lean and sharp in a Marks & Spencer blue and green check shirt, black jeans and designer white trainers, 55-year-old Stuart Machin bounds into his ninth-floor London office. We are in his company’s HQ and the word “Onwards” is boldly printed on a poster behind him.






