If there’s a story to this year’s league table of the top 25 biggest nursery chains in the UK, it’s one of consolidation and growth, particularly for the biggest names. Just days after we went to press, Bright Horizons acquired Asquith Nurseries, in the biggest deal for many years, putting them just nine places behind Busy Bees and second place in the table.
With these two behemoths way out in front, the gap between them and the rest of the large nursery groups is now even wider.
This means that the Pre-school Learning Alliance is now in third position – even though it has almost 20,000 fewer places than the second biggest group.
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