While Busy Bees and Bright Horizons continue their long-held dominance as the biggest nursery groups in the country, Kids Planet can lay claim to the highest growth in the last 12 months, maintaining its strong position in third place in our table of the 25 largest nursery chains in the UK.
The Manchester-based group now operates 172 nurseries in this year’s table, up from 145 in our 2023 issue.
Indeed, as we went to press (and just too late to include in this year’s table) the group has confirmed a deal to buy the Fledglings nursery group of four nurseries.
In a very challenging year, it was those groups backed by private equity investment, such as Kids Planet, that were able to continue to expand.
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