Holding in Company

Mothercare PLC
25 July 2001



CER/RNS

Wednesday, 25 July 2001



The Company Announcements Office

London Stock Exchange

Old Broad Street

London

EC2N 1HP



Dear Sirs

MOTHERCARE PLC

We write to inform you that we were advised today that the Trustee of the
Mothercare Employee Trust acquired 148,000 Mothercare plc ordinary shares on
24 July 2001 at a price of £3.294 per share.

The shares are to be utilised by the Trust for equity incentives throughout
the Mothercare business. The directors of Mothercare plc however are deemed to
be interested in all of the shares held by the Trust which now amount to
3,523,434 shares or 4.98% of the issued share capital as potential
beneficiaries of the Trust.

Yours faithfully

Clive E. Revett

Company Secretary