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29/10/2014 10:56

NOT FOR PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, NEW ZEALAND, JAPAN OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. OTHER RESTRICTIONS ARE APPLICABLE. PLEASE SEE THE IMPORTANT NOTICE IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.
10 October 2014
Mothercare plc
Admission of Nil Paid Rights
Mothercare plc (the "Company") announces that, pursuant to the Rights Issue announced on 23September 2014, 79,942,294 New Ordinary Shares of 50 pence each will be admitted to listing on the premium listing segment of the Official List of the UKLA and will be admitted, nil paid, to trading on the London Stock Exchange plc's main market for listed securities at 8.00 a.m. today.
Enquiries:
      
   +44 (0) 1923   206455

   Matt Smith,   Chief Financial Officer
   Ramona Tipnis, Director of Investor Relations   
      
Joint   Sponsors, Joint Bookrunners and Joint Corporate Brokers
Numis   Securities Limited

   +44 (0) 20   7260 1000

   Oliver   Cardigan
   Andrew Hackney
   Christopher Wilkinson
   Rupert Krefting   
      
J.P.   Morgan Securities plc

   +44 (0) 20   7742 4000

   Luke   Bordewich
   Laurene Danon   
      
Joint   Bookrunner
      
HSBC Bank   plc

   +44 (0) 20   7991 8888

   Nick Donald
   Richard Fagan   
      
IMPORTANT NOTICE
This announcement is not a prospectus but an advertisement and investors should not acquire any Nil Paid Rights, Fully Paid Rights or New Ordinary Shares referred to in this announcement except on the basis of the information contained in the Prospectus published by Mothercare plc in connection with the Rights Issue. 
The Prospectus has been published and is available from the registered office of the Company and on the Company's website at www.mothercareplc.com provided that the Prospectus is not, subject to certain exceptions, available (whether through the website or otherwise) to Shareholders in the United States or other Excluded Territories. The Prospectus gives further details of the New Ordinary Shares, the Nil Paid Rights and the Fully Paid Rights being offered pursuant to the Rights Issue.
Capitalised terms defined in the Prospectus published on 23 September 2014 shall have the same meaning when used in this announcement.
This announcement is for information purposes only and is not intended to and does not constitute or form part of any offer or invitation to purchase or subscribe for, or any solicitation to purchase or subscribe for, Nil Paid Rights, Fully Paid Rights or New Ordinary Shares or to take up any entitlements to Nil Paid Rights in any jurisdiction. This announcement cannot be relied upon for any investment contract or decision. 
The information contained in this announcement is not for release, publication or distribution to persons in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan or any other Excluded Territory and should not be distributed, forwarded to or transmitted in or into any jurisdiction where to do so might constitute a violation of the securities laws or regulations of such jurisdiction. There will be no public offer of Nil Paid Rights, Fully Paid Rights or New Ordinary Shares in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan or any other Excluded Territory. 
The distribution of this announcement and/or the Prospectus and/or the Provisional Allotment Letter and/or the transfer of Nil Paid Rights, Fully Paid Rights and/or New Ordinary Shares into jurisdictions other than the United Kingdom may be restricted by law, and, therefore, persons into whose possession this announcement and/or the Prospectus and/or the Provisional Allotment Letter comes should inform themselves about and observe any such restrictions. Any failure to comply with any such restrictions may constitute a violation of the securities laws of such jurisdiction. In particular, subject to certain exceptions, the information contained herein, the Prospectus and the Provisional Allotment Letter should not be distributed, forwarded or transmitted in or into the United States, Australia, Canada, New  Zealand, Japan or any other Excluded Territory.
This announcement does not constitute or form part of an offer or solicitation to purchase or subscribe for securities of the Company in the United  States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand or Japan or any other Excluded  Territory. The Nil Paid Rights, the Fully Paid Rights, the New Ordinary Shares and the Provisional Allotment Letters have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "US Securities Act"), or under any securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States and may not be offered, sold, pledged, taken up, exercised, resold, renounced, transferred or delivered, directly or indirectly, within the United States except pursuant to an applicable exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the US Securities Act and in compliance with any applicable securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States. The Nil Paid Rights, the Fully Paid Rights, the New Ordinary Shares and the Provisional Allotment Letters have not been approved or disapproved by the SEC, any state securities commission in the United States or any other US regulatory authority, nor have any of the foregoing authorities passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the Nil Paid Rights, the Fully Paid Rights, the New Ordinary Shares or the Provisional Allotment Letters or the accuracy or adequacy of the Prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offence in the United States.
This announcement does not constitute a recommendation concerning the Rights Issue. The price and value of securities can go down as well as up. Past performance is not a guide to future performance. The contents of this announcement are not to be construed as legal, business, financial or tax advice. Each Shareholder or prospective investor should consult his, her or its own legal adviser, business adviser, financial adviser or tax adviser for legal, financial, business or tax advice.
Neither the content of the Company's website nor any website accessible by hyperlinks on the Company's website is incorporated in, or forms part of, this announcement.
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