Marks & Spencer has signed a seven year contract with Fujitsu Services, one of Europe’s biggest IT services companies to provide in-store IT support for around 600 M&S stores in the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

Damone Quigley, head of infrastructure and application services at Marks & Spencer, commented, “We have modernised 70% of our store portfolio and improving the technology has been a large part of this. It is vital that we have a responsive partner who can not only install and support the IT equipment in our stores from multiple vendors, but also identify potential cost savings.”

No financial details were disclosed.