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Busy Bees ties up acquisition of Canadian group

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Busy Bees has confirmed it has completed the purchase of Canadian childcare provider BrightPath.

As Nursery World reported last month, the UK’s biggest childcare provider has continued its international expansion by acquiring the Calgary-based company, Canada’s only publicly-traded childcare chain, which cares for 8,950 pre-school children in 78 settings across Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.

With the sale now officially completed, Busy Bees co-founder and managing director Marg Randles commented, ‘BrightPath, like Busy Bees, is committed to providing families with the very best child development programmes and care its country has to offer. We are united in our vision and values and we are delighted to be working with such a talented team to share best practice across the waters.’

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