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Busy Bees sold to world's biggest daycare provider
By Simon Vevers,
Nursery World,
21 December 2006
Busy Bees nursery and voucher businesses have been bought by ABC Learning Centres, the biggest daycare provider in the world, for £71m in a deal that could be the launching pad for further UK acquisitions by the Australian-based childcare giant. ABC, which has also recently swallowed up more childcare businesses in the US and now has 2,320 settings worldwide, said the Busy Bees voucher operation was 'a new business segment' that could be applied 'across the global childcare market'.
Busy Bees nursery and voucher businesses have been bought by ABC Learning Centres, the biggest daycare provider in the world, for...
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