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Braehead is also home to Glasgow's IKEA store, which opened in September 2001 [18] and sits near the King George V Dock. At 29,000 m 2 (310,000 sq ft), [ 18 ] it is the largest IKEA store in Scotland and at the time of opening was the largest in the United Kingdom.
In February 2007, M&S announced the opening of the world's largest M&S shop outside the UK at Dubai Festival City. [41] On 2 October 2008, M&S opened its first mainland China shop which is in Shanghai. Problems with the supply chain for the first few months of opening led Stuart Rose, M&S chairman, to describe failures in "basic shopkeeping". [42]
This is a list of the largest shopping centres in the United Kingdom, listed by retail size in square metres (m 2).Only centres with space of 65,000 m 2 (700,000 sq ft) or more are listed.
The year 1792 was deemed by the firm to be that of its foundation; [1] it was in all likelihood the year in which John Manners had set up his plane-making workshop on Saracen('s) Lane off the Gallowgate [2] in the heart of Glasgow, not far from the Saracen's Head Inn, [3] where Dr. Johnson and James Boswell had stayed on their tour of Scotland in 1773.