Mothercare
This coverage focuses on Mothercare’s business activities and strategy within the UK retail sector, including store operations, brand repositioning, licensing arrangements, and financial developments. Reporting provides insights into management decisions, market challenges, and the retailer’s efforts to remain relevant in the parenting and nursery goods market — supporting executives, managers, and professionals monitoring family-focused retail.
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Aug- 2018 -20 AugustAdvice
Is your omnichannel strategy costing or saving you money?
For retailers that operate both online and physical stores, an ongoing challenge is to find a way to compete directly with online-only competitors. The latter has increasingly been flexing their muscles as traditional High Street chains come under more and more financial pressure, leading to some high-profile collapses and reshuffles…
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14 AugustAdvice
How to combat growing in-store queues
Recent research from cloud-based platform Qudini reveals that long queues are the largest turn-off for shoppers. Consequently, UK retailers are losing up to £12bn per year with customers becoming frustrated with waiting times, and therefore leaving the store without purchasing. Assuming there’s enough appeal there in the first place to…
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Jul- 2018 -12 JulyAdvice
The end of the high street as we know it?
A week doesn’t go by without another retailer hitting the headlines. M&S, Poundworld, Carphone Warehouse, Mothercare and House of Fraser have all recently announced store closures, rocking the already fragile high street. The dominance of online shopping has been cited by many as the reason for the closures, with…
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10 JulyProperty
Retail property value sees biggest drop in six years
The value of UK retail properties fell by 0.8% in June, the biggest monthly fall since May 2012. According to figures released by real estate company CBRE, in June UK high street shops’ capital values dropped by 1.3% while shopping centres saw a decrease of 1.1%. CBRE’s Monthly UK Index…
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9 JulyHigh Street
Mothercare adds 10 store closures to CVA after Childrens World administration
Mothercare has earmarked another 10 stores for closure as part of its CVA bringing the total to 60 stores, after the group’s Childrens World division entered administration. The new store closures mean that up to 900 jobs will be lost by June 2019. The news comes after the CVA proposal…
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2 JulyAdvice
Why technology is the key to brand loyalty on the changing high street
Today’s newspapers are awash with daily stories of retailers having to transform their business models from yesteryear to stay afloat as our high streets evolve and customer habits and expectations change. Recent articles discussing the fate of Mothercare, Marks & Spencer and House of Fraser are just a few. No…
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Jun- 2018 -27 JuneHigh Street
Costa Coffee sales dip 2% in Q1
Coffee chain Costa has reported a fall in like-for-like sales at the start of the year, blaming a lack of shoppers on the high street. Although total UK sales grew by 5.2% due to new store openings, according to Costa owner Whitbread, the UK’s biggest coffee chain revealed a 2%…
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8 JuneGovernment
Retailers ‘mis-using’ CVA rent reductions, say landlords
Real estate association, the British Property Federation (BPF), believe that retailers have been “mis-using” the CVA process to lower the price of rent. Following the recent upsurge in CVAs, the organisation has called on the government to conduct an “urgent review”. The concerns follow the announcement that House of Fraser,…
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4 JuneEconomy
Mothercare vote mishap puts CVA under threat
Mothercare’s plans for a company voluntary agreement (CVA) to stave off further problems, have been plunged into uncertainty after a mistake was made during the counting of votes last week. It was thought that the CVA would see Mothercare’s Children’s World company pay off its debts. But last week’s vote…
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1 JuneEconomy
Mothercare relegated from FTSE 100
Troubled retailer Mothercare has been relegated from the FTSE 100 following financial woes that have seen it enter a CVA and close 50 stores. Analysts suspect that the relegation will see a further negative effect on share prices following the 48% share price drop it has already seen. The retailer…
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