M&S plans to stock other-label food brands

Marks and Spencer is about to break with 85 years of tradition by selling some of Britain’s best-loved brands in its stores alongside its own-label foods.

Soon shoppers will be able to buy the biggest brands – possibly including Heinz tomato ketchup, Nestlé coffee and Kelloggs cornflakes – in their local Simply Food and town centre stores as the retailer ditches its policy of stocking only M&S brands.