ower labour costs.So it's less surprising that M&S has ditched Baird in favour of foreign imports, than that it has taken so long to do so. M&S is joining the second half of the twentieth century just as its retail rivals are preparing to join the twenty-first.But while the caterpillar is shedding its chrysalis, it's difficult to see a brightly-coloured butterfly emerging - and Salsbury has an enormous job to make it fly.The Greenbury legacy is a heavy one. His power over M&S in the old days was awesome. He had ultimate sign-off on the fashion collections, meaning that teenagers were potentially being styled by their grandfathers' generation. Greenbury would fire off angry letters to newspapers that his press officers would read for the first time in the morning editions.None of this is life-threatening in a business sense and is nothing compared with the achievements of Greenbury in building M&S as a formidable retail force over 40 years. But it is symptomatic of a company that has been held back by autocracy.It was telling that during the boom years of the Eighties, the M&S press office seemed to exist to frustrate any journalists' attempts to reach a director for comment. It is equally symptomatic that M&S has only now hired its first PR staff from outside the company

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