Selim Zilkha
Mothercare, Entrepreneur
Herausgegeben: Gitta, Mariam Chandra
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Selim Zilkha (b. 1927) is an entrepreneur who founded Mothercare, one of the United Kingdom's largest retail chains. Born in Baghdad and brought up in Lebanon, Egypt and the United States, Selim Zilkha was educated at the Horace Mann School in New York City and Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He served in the US Army during World War II. He then worked in finance in the family firm Zilkha & Sons from 1947 to 1960. He then moved to the United Kingdom, where he bought the 50-store W.J. Harris nursery furniture chain, which he renamed Mothercare, and expanded it until it had over...
Selim Zilkha (b. 1927) is an entrepreneur who founded Mothercare, one of the United Kingdom's largest retail chains. Born in Baghdad and brought up in Lebanon, Egypt and the United States, Selim Zilkha was educated at the Horace Mann School in New York City and Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He served in the US Army during World War II. He then worked in finance in the family firm Zilkha & Sons from 1947 to 1960. He then moved to the United Kingdom, where he bought the 50-store W.J. Harris nursery furniture chain, which he renamed Mothercare, and expanded it until it had over 400 stores. He sold his interest in Mothercare in 1981 and moved back to the United States.
