Mothercare caused a few jitters by postponing yesterday’s scheduled full-year results until today. which included the £117.5 million refinancing and associated UK and group restructuring, the disposal of both Early Learning Centre and our head office property”. It says little for its auditors — a last hurrah for Deloitte before handing over to Grant Thornton. Despite assurances that its results will meet expectations the shares fell by 4.23 per cent. James Chancellor, who died suddenly last week aged 59, had started out as a milkman before spending more than 30 years in institutional sales with SG Warburg, then Investec.

Source: The Times May 23, 2019 23:07 UTC