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UK retailer increases imports from Kenya
MARKS & SPENCER, one of the UK's leading retailers, says that the amount of produce it sources from Kenya has grown by over 10 per cent in 2006/7, driven in part by record sales of Kenyan flowers in M&S stores. It also says recent efforts to monitor food and flower imports will not reduce the volumes of its imports from Kenya.
The news comes on the heels of Sir Richard Branson saying that he would talk to UK retailers to review their stand over Kenya's horticultural products. Marks & Spencer buys peas, beans, tender-stem broccoli, baby salad leaves, tea, coffee and roses.
In a recent press statement, Stuart Rose, chief executive of Marks & Spencer said: "Marks & Spencer has been trading with Kenya for over 30 years. I'm delighted we have seen an increase in the amount of Kenyan products we sell to our UK customers, driven partly by growing demand for good quality, healthy products among our M&S customers and the expansion of our chain of Simply Food stores."
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