Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.

Rose lives in central London and Suffolk. Nevertheless they voted to re-appoint him at their annual meeting on 9 July 2008. Rose remained with Marks & Spencer until 1989 when he joined the Burton Group as Chief Executive in 1994.

He was knighted in 2008 for his services to the retail industry. For the American retail executive with a similar name see Stuart Alan Rose.