MOTHERCARE PLC.
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Next accounts due
2026-09-29 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-29
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-09 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-26
Watchouts
Cash
£4M
-14% vs 2024
Net assets
-£9M
+81.2% vs 2024
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£2M
-38.7% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
The directors have prepared the financial statements on the going concern basis... However, as this has not been resolved and aligned within the Trustees or the Trustees of the Defined Benefit Pension Scheme, there is a material uncertainty to going concern.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- MOTHERCARE PLC. 2000-08-03 → present
- STOREHOUSE PLC 1985-12-06 → 2000-08-03
- 15TH LEGIBUS PLC 1985-09-26 → 1985-12-06
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-29
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-30 | 2025-03-29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £56,200,000 | £38,900,000 | |
| Operating profit | £6,500,000 | £2,000,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,100,000 | £1,900,000 | |
| Net profit | £3,300,000 | £6,200,000 | |
| Cash | £5,000,000 | £4,300,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£16,700,000 | -£18,200,000 | |
| Net assets | -£50,100,000 | -£9,400,000 | |
| Equity | -£50,100,000 | -£9,400,000 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | £7,000,000 | £6,500,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-30 | 2025-03-29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 11.6% | 5.1% | |
| Net margin | 5.9% | 15.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | -38.9% | -11.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 323.7% | 132.8% | |
| Current ratio | 0.79x | 1.10x | |
| Interest cover | 1.91x | 0.54x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- RPG Crouch Chapman LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The directors have prepared the financial statements on the going concern basis... However, as this has not been resolved and aligned within the Trustees or the Trustees of the Defined Benefit Pension Scheme, there is a material uncertainty to going concern.”
Group structure
- MOTHERCARE PLC. · parent
- Chelsea Stores Holdings Limited 100%
- Chelsea Stores (EBT Trustees) Limited 100%
- Chelsea Stores Holdings 2 Limited 100%
- Mothercare Group Holdings Limited 100%
- TCR Properties Limited 100%
- Mothercare Finance Limited 100%
- Mothercare Sourcing Division (Bangladesh) Private Limited 100%
- Mothercare Group Limited (The) 100%
- Mothercare Services Limited 100%
- Mothercare (Holdings) Limited 100%
- Gurgle Limited 100%
- Mothercare International (Hong Kong) Limited 100%
- Mothercare Sourcing India Private Limited 100%
- Princess Products Limited 100%
- Mothercare Procurement Limited 100%
- Mothercare Trademarks AG 100%
- Mothercare Commercial (Shanghai) Co Limited 100%
- Mothercare Global Brand Limited 100%
- Mothercare Europe Global Brand Limited 100%
- Mothercare Finance (2) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “A reduction of the combined debt financing & pension schemes actuarial deficit from £25 million to £19 million was achieved.”
- “The adjusted loss before tax of £2.5 million for the financial year to March 2025 on worldwide retail sales by franchise partners of £230.6 million (2024: £280.8 million), including pension deficit of £4.5 million, some 83% lower than the in-period loss.”
- “The Transformation Plan launched immediately after my appointment alongside management efforts to radically reduce working capital requirements (in the wake of the unprecedented Covid-19 led demand shock) and subsequently to address the actuarial deficit of £19 million (in Russia) as a result of sanctions arising from the Ukraine conflict, strived to secure a sustainable business model with a capacity to deliver a superior future.”
- “In June 2025 we announced a new license agreement for Turkey, with Ebebek Magazacilik A.S ('Ebebek').”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 49 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDINI, Lynne Samantha | Secretary | 2018-05-25 | — | — |
| COOK, Andrew | Director | 2020-01-23 | Mar 1963 | British |
| KENT, Gillian Dawn Celia | Director | 2017-03-16 | Oct 1963 | British |
| SMALL, Brian Michael | Director | 2019-12-10 | Oct 1956 | British |
| WHILEY, Clive Peter | Director | 2018-04-19 | Jun 1960 | British |
Show 49 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASHBY, Timothy John | Secretary | 2010-08-30 | 2015-07-24 |
| DARWALL, Alice | Secretary | 2017-11-03 | 2018-05-25 |
| EAMES, Andrew David | Secretary | 2017-08-04 | 2017-11-03 |
| FOLLAND, Nicholas James | Secretary | 2015-07-24 | 2016-01-11 |
| JOHNSON, Guy Antony | Secretary | — | 1999-01-13 |
| REVETT, Clive Edward | Secretary | 1999-01-13 | 2010-08-30 |
| TALISMAN, Daniel | Secretary | 2016-01-11 | 2017-08-04 |
| BEDFORD, Steven William | Director | — | 1999-09-29 |
| BLAND, Francis Christopher Buchan, Sir | Director | — | 1993-10-25 |
| BRAV, Angela | Director | 2013-01-01 | 2016-07-22 |
| CALVER, Simon John | Director | 2012-04-30 | 2014-02-24 |
| COLAIANNI, Teresa | Director | 2016-10-14 | 2018-05-18 |
| CRAGG, Bernard Anthony | Director | 2003-03-28 | 2012-12-31 |
| DAVISON, Ian Frederic Hay | Director | — | 1996-07-10 |
| DOWNES, Margaret, Dr | Director | — | 1996-07-10 |
| DWORKIN, David | Director | — | 1993-03-26 |
| EDELMAN, Keith Graeme | Director | 1993-08-23 | 1999-05-28 |
| GINSBERG, Lee Dale | Director | 2012-07-02 | 2018-07-19 |
| GLEW, Steven Peter | Director | 2003-03-04 | 2005-12-28 |
| GORDON, Joseph Benjamin | Director | 2002-12-02 | 2011-11-17 |
| HARDY, Brian | Director | 1994-11-24 | 2003-07-18 |
| HARRINGTON, Neil Simon | Director | 2006-01-30 | 2012-07-20 |
| HEYLIN, Angela Christine | Director | 1997-03-07 | 2004-11-18 |
| HUGHES, William Glyn Lawrence | Director | 2017-12-01 | 2020-06-30 |
| IVERSON, Ann | Director | 1993-02-11 | 1993-03-26 |
| IVERSON, Ann | Director | — | 1994-06-10 |
| LE VESCONTE, Daniel James | Director | 2023-01-16 | 2023-06-09 |
| MACKENZIE, Amanda Felicity | Director | 2011-01-01 | 2017-02-24 |
| MARTIN, Christopher Nicholas | Director | 1997-01-17 | 2002-07-14 |
| MCMENEMY, Mark | Director | 2001-04-17 | 2003-03-03 |
| NEWTON-JONES, Mark | Director | 2018-05-18 | 2024-11-19 |
| NEWTON-JONES, Mark | Director | 2014-07-17 | 2018-04-04 |
| PARKER, Alan Charles | Director | 2011-08-15 | 2018-04-19 |
| PEACOCK, Ian Rex | Director | 2002-08-01 | 2011-10-31 |
| PESCHISOLIDO, Karren | Director | 2003-07-30 | 2010-08-13 |
| RIDER, Graham Howard | Director | 1992-11-12 | 1993-10-11 |
| RIVERS, Richard Michael | Director | 2008-07-17 | 2018-07-19 |
| SIMONS, David Martin | Director | — | 1992-12-31 |
| SMITH, Alan Keith Patrick | Director | 1996-01-15 | 2002-10-31 |
| SMITH, Matthew George | Director | 2013-03-25 | 2015-01-20 |
| SMOTHERS, Richard | Director | 2015-03-23 | 2017-12-01 |
| SORRELL, Martin Stuart | Director | 1994-01-26 | 1997-07-10 |
| STEELE, Richard John | Director | 1994-04-18 | 1997-01-17 |
| TAGG, David Edward | Director | — | 2000-07-20 |
| TAGUE, Stephen Paul | Director | 1999-05-20 | 2000-05-25 |
| WALSH, Imelda | Director | 2013-06-01 | 2016-10-10 |
| WHARTON, Nicholas Barry Edward | Director | 2013-11-14 | 2019-12-31 |
| WILLIAMS, David Gay | Director | 2004-08-02 | 2013-05-31 |
| WOOD, David Bernard | Director | 2018-04-04 | 2018-11-21 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 1309 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-11-19 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-11-16 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-11-01 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-09 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2026-03-10 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-03-02 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-11-19 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-11-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-07-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-12-02 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2022-11-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-11-16 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-11-01 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-10-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-09-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-29 vs 2024-03-30
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Turnover
-30.8%
£56,200,000 £38,900,000
-
Cash
-14%
£5,000,000 £4,300,000
-
Net assets
+81.2%
-£50,100,000 -£9,400,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-69.2%
£6,500,000 £2,000,000
-
Profit before tax
-38.7%
£3,100,000 £1,900,000
-
Wages
-7.1%
£7,000,000 £6,500,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers