Mothercare, which also owns the Early Learning Centre chain, has been scaling down its presence on the UK High Street as part of its turnaround plan, and now has only 269 stores, compared with 311 last April.

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The government has implemented recommendations from those thinkers that have ranged from changing how they do supply chain management to introducing childhood development learning centers in schools.

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Learning to dance in the chain of the 500 or so studios of Kathryn and Arthur Murray seemed as properly American as drinking Coca-Cola or buying a Ford car.

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The head of corporate training for this fast-growing food chain put in place a YouTube-like learning portal which lets any employee upload a video of themselves doing their job well.

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