About Mothercare

The Mothercare group is comprised principally of two iconic retail brands with international appeal: Mothercare and Early Learning Centre.

The group's brands operate through three distinct channels to market: UK stores, Direct (being the in-home and in-store internet-based businesses and catalogue mail order), and International, under which the group franchises (or participates in joint venture) operations delivering the Mothercare and Early Learning Centre brand retail operations in overseas markets.

Mothercare and Early Learning Centre
The Mothercare and Early Learning Centre brands are synonymous with children and parenting. Both brands carry with them a reputation for specialism, quality, safety and innovation in providing products and services for mothers, mothers-to-be, babies and young children. Both brands are passionate about their commitment to offering customers a multi-channel shopping environment through retail stores, catalogues and the internet, so that parents can meet the needs and aspirations for their children, worldwide.

Our global reach
The group sources the products it sells globally so as to anticipate and meet the needs of its customers. We do this by having people in our key operating countries. Whilst the principal office of the group is in the United Kingdom, it has invested significant resources in its sourcing and supply chain operations in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Bangalore, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates so that we can better understand and serve our customers' needs. Our buying and sourcing teams develop innovative products with our manufacturers; our supply chain partners help us deliver them through our warehouses to stores around the world where finally our retail and customer teams deliver specialist service to our customers. This specialist knowledge and service differentiates us from the competition thereby enhancing the Mothercare and Early Learning Centre brands.

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Helping parents is at the heart of what we do and part of every business decision we make. We also realise that we can have an indirect involvement in helping parents and their children, through various charity and community partnerships.

We implement our community engagement and charitable work through three separate initiatives:

Born to Care

In October 2010 we launched our three-year global partnership with Save the Children - Born to Care. We are working towards raising £1.75 million over the partnership, to support Save the Children's work to reduce childhood mortality around the world, and to lift children out of poverty in the UK.

So far we have raised over £1 million and are well on our way to meeting our target of £1.75 million. It's a shocking fact that every year more than 8 million children die before reaching their fifth birthday ? many from easily preventable or treatable conditions such as diarrhoea and pneumonia. Despite living in the fifth richest country in the world, millions of children in the UK are growing up in poverty. It's hard to believe but there are many children in the UK who don't have a bed to sleep in. At Mothercare, we can't think of two better reasons to support Save the Children's work - their values are intrinsically linked to ours. Our DNA is about caring for parents, and nothing is more important to them than the well being of their children. Our Managing Director for the UK, Mike Logue, said: "Mothercare Group and Save the Children are committed to giving children the best chances in life - from growing up in a safe and protective environment to ensuring they have access to nutritious food and quality healthcare. For this reason, in October 2010, we launched Born to Care, our global partnership to raise £1.75 million to help children in the UK and around the world. During the first year, the partnership has gone from strength to strength, with events taking place across the UK, Hong Kong, China, India and Bangladesh." We started our partnership with an initial donation of £50,000 and this provided direct support to a project aimed at supporting migrant mothers and their babies working or living in Shanghai. Save the Children's global presence has helped us engage our Sourcing Offices in India, Bangladesh, Hong Kong and China. All of our fundraising activities in our stores and offices (both in the UK and overseas) will be focused on raising money to meet and hopefully exceed our £1.75 million target. Douglas Rouse, Corporate Partnerships Director at Save the Children, said: "The fact that Mothercare group will be supporting our work at home and abroad, in areas important to their staff and customers, is something we are incredibly excited about. By aligning our common purpose we will work together to improve the lives of mothers and their children across the world."

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Whether it's the pram you were pushed in, the gift you’ve bought a friend’s newborn or the toys you’ve bought your own child, Mothercare is a brand you and your family have trusted. Our stores are an established favourite on the UK high street and we’re now pushing to expand across the world – which is where you come in. Your talents and your skills are just what we’re looking for. We already have a presence in over 50 countries but we’re determined to do a lot more. So if you think you’ve got what it takes to excel in our global company, find out more about us, search our current vacancies and apply today.