Lynn Woodward, managing director of Busy Bees nurseries division, said,'Every nursery that we have has to contribute from a financial point ofview and some of these nurseries have been sustaining heavy losses,probably for the last three years, and therefore they are notsustainable. You have to be able to maintain your business and make surethat those nurseries contributing well are not drained by the lack ofcontribution from others.'
The decision to close ten of the 88 Leapfrog nurseries from mid- tolate-November effectively ratifies a plan to shut them devised by NordAnglia prior to the takeover, which was completed on 19 September. Theten nurseries are in Coventry, Stevenage, Reading, Fulham, HammersmithCentre West, Hemel Hempstead, Lincoln, Northampton Riverside, LondonSmithfield and Bradford.
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