After opening her first nursery 11 years ago, former policewoman Jeanette Burke has expanded her Little People's Day Nurseries into a successful chain of three in the past two years. Her third nursery opened in Flint, North Wales, last May and is already self-sufficient.
'I had no intention of opening a third but then I received a letter from somebody who owned the property,' she says. 'It had been made into a nursery but was closing down. So we went to have a look and saw so much potential and very little competition; there was only one other nursery in the area. It looked too good a proposition to turn down.'
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