Mothercare's third-quarter group sales slipped 18% on lower online sales of baby products and fewer discounts, which led to a double digit dip in UK like-for-like revenue.
The company has refinanced and is shutting over a third of its UK stores to combat weak footfall and pressure from online and discount players.
It said today its store closure programme was ahead of schedule and that plans for the full-year were unchanged.
Mothercare had said in November it would meet analysts' average forecast of a pretax loss of about £14.6m for the full 2018-19 year.
Mothercare Ireland is a separately-owned business which operates 15 Irish stores under the brand.
