Handforth Dean is a

retail park A retail park is a type of shopping centre found on the fringes of most large towns and cities in the United Kingdom and other European countries. Retail parks form a key aspect of European retail geographies, alongside indoor shopping centres, ...

in Handforth,

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, England; it opened in 1995, alongside the A34. It contains four superstores:

Marks & Spencer Marks and Spencer plc (commonly abbreviated to M&S and colloquially known as Marks & Sparks or simply Marks) is a major British multinational retailer based in London, England, that specialises in selling clothing, beauty products, home produc ...

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, JD Sports and

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. Large

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and

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stores are sited on a development adjacent to the retail park. In 2002, the Marks & Spencer store was the company's most profitable outside London; it is also one of their largest stores in the country. In 2007, the Tesco store had a second floor added to handle the number of customers that used it and was converted into a ''Tesco Extra''. Tesco has described Handforth Dean as its "flagship store".

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