The chain now has 61 nurseries throughout England, employing more than 2,000 staff and offering more than 5,580 places.
The latest purpose-built setting has just opened in Sale, Cheshire, with unprecedented demand for its 100 places.
Set up in 1983 by Jean and Stewart Pickering, kidsunlimited celebrates its 30th anniversary next year.
The company’s development director Jeremy Clark said, ‘Occupancy in the new nursery has exceeded our expectation. The Sale nursery broke new records for growth, with a huge amount of enquiries, and parents signing up before the nursery opened.’
It follows the opening in Wokingham in March, a 73-place nursery in an office conversion, (below, top), and Maidstone in January, (below, bottom), a 96-place setting built on the site of an old paper mill.
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