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The company reported that UK store sales had fallen by 23.2%, while online sales in the UK were down by 12.1%. The company recorded a worldwide sales drop of 9.4%. [10] In November 2019, the company put Mothercare UK (and Mothercare Business Services) into administration; [11] all the UK shops and the UK website closed soon after. [12]
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.
Storehouse plc, traded as Storehouse, was a large UK retail business formed by Terence Conran through the merger of various high street chains. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index before it was renamed Mothercare in 2000.
British Home Stores, commonly abbreviated to BHS and latterly legally styled BHS Ltd, is an online store and formerly a British department store chain, primarily selling clothing and household items. In its later years, the company began to expand into furniture, electronics, entertainment, convenience groceries and fragrance and beauty products.
In 1981, the company's shares were floated on the London Stock Exchange [3] and in 1982 it merged with Mothercare Group to form Habitat Mothercare Group plc. [3] The now-listed company bought the furniture retailer Heal's and the Richard Shops fashion chain in 1983. [3] In 1986, the company merged with British Home Stores to form Storehouse plc ...
Maplin Electronics is the trading name of an online retailer of electronic goods in the United Kingdom and Ireland launched in 2019, using the brand of the former company Maplin Electronics Limited, which operated from 1972 to 2018.
Gurgle.com is a British pregnancy and parenting website owned by high-street parenting store Mothercare. Founded by Tom Wright, Gurgle launched as a joint venture between Mothercare aa, a family backed investment company, in October 2007. [1] Mothercare bought Fleming Media out to become outright owner of Gurgle in September 2009. [2]
Selim Khedouri Zilkha (7 April 1927 – 16 September 2022) was an Iraqi-born British entrepreneur, who founded Mothercare, one of the UK's largest retail chains until it was put into administration in 2019.