In this issue of Nursery Chains, we have for the first time in the directory listed the total number of registered places provided by each group. This gives us a picture of how the biggest groups in the country compare.
Not surprisingly, Asquith Court Schools, which recently announced that it had been bought for 66m by the European arm of a global investment bank, West LB, is the largest. However, some of the others in our top 20 have comparatively few branches - such as Lancashire-based Kindercare Childcare Centres, which currently runs nine nurseries. One of these, at 248 places, is the largest known to Nursery World in the UK. The group is building two more 220-place nurseries for next year, so is likely to remain one of the biggest nursery providers in the country.
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