During December M&S sold...

- enough knitwear to clothe every woman between the ages of 20 and 80 living in the whole of Greater London, selling 10 items of knitwear a second and enough men’s knitted jumpers to stretch from Lands End to John O’Groats, about 890 miles.

- a whole turkey, turkey crown or turkey joint every second, weighing the same as 11 empty Boeing 747s.

- enough magic knickers to take a quarter of a million inches off the waistlines of British women this Christmas.

- one pack of smoked salmon every 4.5 seconds.

- enough tights for every woman in England to have a pair, about 20 million pairs.

- 13 million clementines, weighing 910 tonnes.

- enough M&S Christmas pudding, cake, mince pies to feed one in five British households.

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