{"id":448333,"date":"2022-02-26T09:16:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T09:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=448333"},"modified":"2022-02-26T09:16:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T09:16:49","slug":"mothercare-hires-lovefilm-boss-simon-calver-as-chief-executive-in-bid-to-change-fortunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=448333","title":{"rendered":"Mothercare hires Lovefilm boss Simon Calver as chief executive in bid to change fortunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mothercare hires Lovefilm boss Simon Calver as chief executive in bid to change fortunes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By<span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated\"> <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Updated:<\/span>  22:15 BST, 8 February 2012  <\/span> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecinemaholic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/colony_still.jpg\" style=\"max-width:440px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px\"> <\/p>\n<div id=\"articleIconLinksContainer\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"share-facebook-long\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-twitter\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-pinterest\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-flipboard\">  <\/li>\n<li class=\"share-fbmessenger\">  <\/li>\n<li data-anchor=\"tl\" data-twitter-status=\" website via @ThisIsMoney\" data-formatted-headline=\"Mothercare hires Lovefilm boss Simon Calver as chief executive in bid to change fortunes\" data-article-id=\"2098401\" data-article-channel-follow-button=\"ThisIsMoney\" data-is-channel=\"false\" data-headline=\"Mothercare hires Lovefilm boss Simon Calver as chief executive in bid to change fortunes\" id=\"shareLinkTop\" class=\"share-icons\" data-placement=\"top\" data-email-share-style=\"email_share_article-top\">  <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><font style=\"font-size:1.2em\">Mothercare has hired Lovefilm boss Simon Calver as chief executive in a bid to change the mother-and-baby firm&#8217;s fortunes.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size:1.2em\">He will leave the DVD rental service at the end of April after a seven-year tenure that saw the sale of the business to Amazon for \u00a3200m.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">Alan Parker, former boss of Whitbread, has been standing in as Mothercare&#8217;s chief executive since the role&#8217;s former incumbent Ben Gordon left in October amid a profits warning.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"thinCenter\">   <img height=\"286\" width=\"468\" alt=\"A pregnant shopper at Mothercare\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Planning for the future: Mothercare hopes Calver will change firm&#8217;s fortunes<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><font style=\"font-size:1.2em\">Parker will return to his role as the company&#8217;s non-executive chairman once Calver takes the reins.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">The troubled babycare chain launched a review of its British businesses in November after reporting half-year pre-tax losses\u00a0 of \u00a381.4m.<\/font><\/p>\n<div class=\"relatedItemsTopBorder\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"relatedItems\" data-track-module=\"am-related_items^related_items\" data-track-selector=\"a:not([class*=external])\" data-track-pos=\"static\">\n<h4>More&#8230;<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><font style=\"font-size:1.2em\">Calver has had stints at Dell, PepsiCo and Lever Brothers &#8211; now Unilever &#8211; and it is hoped his knowledge of brand-pushing will help lead the retailer back into the black.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size:1.2em\">Calver said he was \u2018delighted&#8217; to be joining an \u2018iconic company&#8217;.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size:1.2em\">At Lovefilm, he is succeeded by former finance boss and current <a href=\"https:\/\/stockhouse.com\/search?searchtext=chief%20operating\">chief operating<\/a> officer, Jim Buckle.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size:1.2em\">Shares in Mothercare, which have halved in the past year,  <a href=\"http:\/\/lostfilm.hd-lostfilm.net\">http:\/\/lostfilm.hd-lostfilm.net<\/a> jumped 8 per cent on the news to finish 15.5p higher at 217p.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column-content cleared narrow\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mothercare hires Lovefilm boss Simon Calver as chief executive in bid to change fortun\u2026","protected":false},"author":132460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16238],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/132460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448334,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448333\/revisions\/448334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}