British retailer Marks & Spencer has persuaded design consultant George Davies to sign a new contract a month after it announced his resignation, the Times newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Davies, who launched the retailer's fashionable Per Una women's clothing brand in September 2001, will work two days a week from next July, according to the unsourced report.
M&S Chief Executive Stuart Rose is understood to have negotiated a deal with Davies to keep him at Per Una, one of the biggest sales areas for the company, according to the Times.