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Nursery owners come together at Nursery World's Business Dinner in partnership with Redwoods Dowling Kerr

Nursery owner guests gathered at Nursery World’s third business dinner in partnership with Redwoods Dowling Kerr to enjoy good food and discuss mergers and acquisitions and other key business issues around the table.
The Ivy Club provided the venue for NW's recent business dinner in partnership with RDK. PHOTOS Jamie Hodgskin
The Ivy Club provided the venue for NW's recent business dinner in partnership with RDK. PHOTOS Jamie Hodgskin

Held at the Ivy Club in London, the evening began with a welcome from NW editor Karen Faux and was followed by a presentation from RDK managing director, Andrew Steen.

Steen (pictured below) highlighted the trends underpinning a changing private day nursery market. According to RDK’s data, large nurseries of 60-plus places are continuing to steadily increase their market share, with this standing at 36.3 per cent in 2023. While medium sized nurseries of 40 to 59 places have remained static at around 28.5 per cent of the market, those with 20 to 39 places have reduced market share to 33.8 in the last three years.

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