Rivals drive BMW nursery off the road

By Laura Marcus, Nursery World, 17 April 2008

Car-maker BMW is to shut down its workplace nursery, due to competition from local providers.

Mini Kids Nursery has been run on the BMW Mini site in Cowley, Oxford by nursery chain Busy Bees for 14 years. Bosses have told the 30 families using the nursery that it 'is no longer sustainable'. A letter was sent to parents on 29 March to say the nursery would close in September. Parent Joanne Ejiogu said, 'The main reason we use the nursery is the subsidised fees and also the fact that it's a really small nursery. You know that all the staff really know your child. The...

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