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Marks & Spencer's
'Mammary Tax'
Anger as Marks & Spencer charge more for large underwear
Busty shoppers were fuming after Marks & Spencer upped prices for bigger bras.
The chain slapped £2 more on bra sizes from 30DD to 42G, saying they needed "more engineering and
construction work".
But campaign group Busts 4 Justice blasted the surcharge as "an affront to our fronts".
Dubbing it a "mammary tax", founder Beckie Williams, 25, of Brighton, said: "They don't apply this policy to
other clothes that use more material.
"If you don't charge a size 20 woman more for trousers, why should you have to pay more for an E cup?"
M&S said: "There are 30 different components in a bra. The extra charge is more to do with the engineering
than material."
A Marks & Spencer spokesman said many women are "happy to pay a small premium" for the extra work that goes into making the bras.
It added the move was "standard practice". But John Lewis and Asda said they charged the same price for
different sizes.
11/12
The International Lingerie
Fashion Show
Photos by Studio Time
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Fashion Show on page 5
10/15/05
Mone Buys Out Investors
Michelle Mone has bought out investors Sir Tom Hunter
and Ian Grabiner at Ultimo manufacturer MFM in an £800,000 deal.
They had invested in Mone's lingerie company Ultimo when the business nearly collapsed after its launch in
1999.
The firm has prospered and both are said to have made a good return on their investment.
Sir Tom is understood to have received £640,000 and Mr. Grabiner, chief operating officer of Arcadia, got
£160,000. Mone recently signed the former Spice Girl Melanie Brown as the new face of Ultimo.
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A blonde quickly went out to her mail box, looked in
it, closed the door of the box, and went back in the house. A few minutes later she repeated this process by
checking her mail again.
She did this five more times, and her neighbor that was watching her commented: "You must be expecting a very
important letter today the way you keep looking into that mail box."
The blonde answered, "No, I am working on my computer, and it keeps telling me that I have mail."
4/6
Figleaves Relaunches
Website
Online lingerie retailer Figleaves.com is set to relaunch its online storefront using software firm
ATG's entire e-commerce suite.
Figleaves, which has more than 1m customers and operates through warehouses in Suffolk, UK and a North
American warehouse in Windsor, Ontario, chose ATG because it wanted its capability to view a more
complete and up-to-date profile of its customers, a statement said.
Its new site will be promoted with Web marketing campaigns, ATG went on to say.
Catherine Hall, online merchandising director at figleaves.com said: "In selecting a new Web platform
for our business - putting the customer at the center of the decision was absolutely key. Our vision is to
deliver a personalized, engaging and empowering online
shopping experience for our customers - only ATG has the proven technology that could truly support that
vision."
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