The Mothercare online green shop offers a range environmentally friendly baby, kids & maternity products

Our environmental footprint comes from supplying stores in the UK and worldwide with products and from the operation of the stores themselves. All UK and some products destined for our franchise partners' stores pass through one of two warehouses in the UK - some delivered directly by suppliers but some imported by us and requiring transport from the dock where they arrive. At the warehouses they are checked, tested, sorted and eventually transported to our stores. Some products are delivered directly to customers' homes following an order in-store or on the internet.

We also recognise that the products we sell have an environmental impact. We aim to offer consumers choice and help make it easy for them to choose greener options.

The most important environmental aspects are therefore:

• Stores, using energy and producing waste
• Warehouses, again using energy and producing waste
• Transport fleets, bringing products from the docks to the warehouses, from the warehouses to stores or customers' homes
• Products, and the materials used to make them and
• Packaging and other bulk materials

We will report against our environmental targets, set in 2007, in our annual report each year.

To support our customers we have recently launched the Green shop on the Mothercare web site - this is a search facility that allows our customers to find greener or more sustainable alternatives. There is also a link to further information on green parenthood which offers practical advice and tips for our customers.

We have made a start but there is more for us to do - to strengthen our position in this area we have recently set up a Sustainable Product Working Group and we aim to extend our range of Organic, Fair Trade, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified wood and recycled product.