Nursery World - US group buys Scottish chain

The Scottish nursery chain Red Apple Private Nurseries has been bought by an American childcare company. Acquiring the four Red Apple Nurseries - three in Edinburgh and one in Livingston - last week marked the first entry into Scotland by the US-based Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BHFS). The company already owns nurseries in London and Dublin, specialising in employer-sponsored childcare for clients including HSBC, J Sainsbury plc and IBM, and is considering expanding on the continent, particularly France.

Acquiring the four Red Apple Nurseries - three in Edinburgh and one in Livingston - last week marked the first entry into Scotland by the US-based Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BHFS). The company already owns nurseries in London and Dublin, specialising in employer-sponsored childcare for clients including HSBC, J Sainsbury plc and IBM, and is considering expanding on the continent, particularly France.

BHFS, which is unable to use the name Bright Horizons in the UK because of an existing nursery chain with the same title, acquired London-based Nurseryworks in June 2000 and Circle of Friends in Dublin early last year.

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