Nursery World - Nursery Chains 2022: Groups by Size

How has the make-up of the biggest nursery chains changed in the past 12 months? Catherine Gaunt presents our annual top 25 table, and rankings by Ofsted grades

Kids Planet Lymm - the nursery group is now the third largest in the UK

First off, a caveat – all the information in our table of the biggest chains is correct as of the end of January 2022.

This means that due to the lead time needed for the extensive research we carry out in preparing the magazine, by the time this issue of Nursery Chains comes out in early March, there may have been some more acquisitions in the intervening weeks that we have been unable to capture in this edition.

Such is the current pace of change and consolidation in the sector, despite – or in some cases, as a direct result of – the major challenges we have all faced during the past two years of the pandemic.

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