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Stuart Machin

Shopping & retail
@thestuartmachin
CEO | Food, fashion, politics, music & animal lover | This account is my work and public Instagram account. Account is managed.
  • eCommerce/DTC
  • Following 618
  • Followers 7.4K
  • Engagement 7.74%
  • Avg comments 20

About Stuart Machin

Stuart Machin (@thestuartmachin) is a Shopping & retail creator on Instagram, also filed under eCommerce/DTC. The account has 7,380 followers and 176 published posts. Recent posts average 501 likes and 20 comments, an engagement rate of 7.74%.

Stuart Machin belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Stuart Machin follows 618 accounts, so the audience is roughly 12 times the size of the list followed. Stuart Machin carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Stuart Machin under Shopping & retail, with eCommerce/DTC as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for Stuart Machin runs to 19 words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Stuart Machin dates from July 2026.

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176 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Stuart Machin, 5 are carousels, 4 are videos and 1 is a single image. No single format accounts for most of them. 176 published posts give Stuart Machin a moderate archive on Instagram. Against the audience, that is roughly 42 followers for each post published. Stuart Machin also keeps 49 story highlights on the profile. 9 of those 10 carry captions, averaging 46 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include first, fashion, show, we’ve and been. The captions tag #lovethat, #kingstrust50, #marksandspencer and #createacaricatureofmeandmyjob.

Pantheon on Oxford Street, where we’ve been since 1938.

Now fully modernised, and our first full-line flagship, with our new Fashion, Home & Beauty format brought to life for the first time.

Bringing together the best of M&S across Fashion, Home, Beauty and Food, all in one place.

Love that!
M&S has just hosted the first ever fashion show on the Silverstone pit lane ahead of the British Grand Prix.

Bringing fashion into race week at Silverstone through our partnership with Atlassian Williams Racing, featuring our latest Dress to Thrill summer edit.

#LoveThat
Picky Bits …. Of course at
It’s back. Our fastest selling sandwich ever is in stores for the summer. And now there’s two to choose from, with a new Chocolate, Strawberry & Pistachio Sando. Hard to pick a favourite... 🍓🍫
Today, we welcomed Kemi Badenoch, Leader of the Opposition, to our Victoria Cardinal Place store to show her everything we’re doing to invest in quality and value, transform and grow M&S, and serve our customers. Our colleague Jennifer, who has been with M&S for 14 years, even got Kemi filling shelves to show her our sleeves rolled up culture!

We had a really good discussion on why retail matters and how it’s made harder when taxes and regulation are ever-increasing. gets it. We also discussed our recent announcement, Not Just Any Career, creating 1,000 traineeships for young people - giving them a chance to climb the M&S leadership ladder.
It was an honour to represent M&S at a Youth Opportunity Summit at Buckingham Palace, hosted by His Majesty The King, alongside our long standing partner.

We know just how important getting that first step into work is – and that having the right support, mentors and role models can make all the difference.

That’s why we’re collaborating with The King’s Trust, Sir Gareth Southgate and the Department for Culture Media and Sport on a new initiative launching next year, that will help connect young people to the mentors, training, skills and meaningful experience they need to build confidence and get on that first rung of the ladder.

#KingsTrust50
We’ve just released our full year results. It was an extraordinary year – our colleagues worked incredibly hard to recover our business and we came out stronger.

Thanks to every customer who chose to shop with us – our aim is to serve you better every day.

#marksandspencer
The fashion event! ☀️ xx
Just joining the ChatGPT #createacaricatureofmeandmyjob trend!

Stuart Machin's engagement

Stuart Machin's engagement rate on Instagram is 7.74%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 13 followers. An average post collects 501 likes and 20 comments, close to 25 likes for each comment.

Engagement rate

7.74%

Avg likes
501
Avg comments
20
Interactions : followers
1 : 13

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Who is Stuart Machin?

Stuart Machin (@thestuartmachin) is a Shopping & retail creator on Instagram, also filed under eCommerce/DTC. Stuart Machin carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Stuart Machin runs to 19 words.

How many followers does Stuart Machin have?

Stuart Machin has 7,380 followers on Instagram (7.4K). Stuart Machin follows 618 accounts, so the audience is roughly 12 times the size of the list followed. 176 published posts give Stuart Machin a moderate archive on Instagram.

What is Stuart Machin's engagement rate?

Stuart Machin's engagement rate on Instagram is 7.74%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 13 followers. An average post collects 501 likes and 20 comments, close to 25 likes for each comment.

What does Stuart Machin post about on Instagram?

Flinque files Stuart Machin under Shopping & retail, with eCommerce/DTC as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Stuart Machin, 5 are carousels, 4 are videos and 1 is a single image. The 9 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Stuart Machin repeatedly use the words first, fashion, show, we’ve and been. Stuart Machin's captions carry hashtags such as #lovethat, #kingstrust50 and #marksandspencer. Stuart Machin writes those captions mainly in English. Stuart Machin keeps 49 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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