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In January 1996, it bought Children's World from Boots, [4] and rebranded these stores as Mothercare World. In May 2000, the Bhs stores were sold to Philip Green, [4] and Storehouse reverted to the Mothercare brand. [4] In June 2007, Mothercare bought Early Learning Centre (ELC) for £85 million. [5]
The Children's World logo. At the time, Boots' larger high street stores sold a range of baby products, maternity and children's clothing. However the Children's World stores were a larger "superstore" format typically located in retail parks, [2] which sold a wider range of children's clothing, shoes, toys, baby products and nursery furniture.
The Company bought Children's World from Boots in 1996, [12] and rebranded all of their superstores Mothercare World stores. In 2000, following several years of tough trading for all companies within the group, British Home Stores was sold to Philip Green for £200m cash. [13] Storehouse then changed its name to Mothercare plc. [12]
An advertisement for Boots from 1911. Boots was established in 1849, by John Boot. [7] After his father's death in 1860, Jesse Boot, aged 10, helped his mother run the family's herbal medicine shop in Nottingham, [8] which was incorporated as Boot and Co. Ltd in 1883, becoming Boots Pure Drug Company Ltd in 1888.
In 1986, BHS merged with Habitat and Mothercare to form Storehouse plc. [6] Soon afterwards, the British Home Stores registered company name and branding across its shops was replaced with "BhS" (later "Bhs", and since reverted to the all-caps "BHS", which the company used in addition to the full British Home Stores name prior to the full ...
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (WBA) is an American multinational holding company headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois. [2] The company was formed on December 31, 2014, after Walgreens bought the 55% stake in Alliance Boots (owner of Boots UK Limited ) that it did not already own.