Nursery World - Nursery Chains: League tables

There are some new faces in our Top 25 table of nursery groups this
year, and in our extensive directory too. Catherine Gaunt analyses the
latest moves in both size and quality of the chains.

The positions of the largest nursery groups in our annual table of the biggest chains in the UK reflect the trend in recent years of the corporatisation of the early years sector - the continuing rise of the big chains.

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The ten biggest players still dominate the top half of the table, their positions largely unchanged from last year. During the past 12 months many of them have opened new settings or increased the number of places they offer at their existing ones.

These findings mirror those of Laing & Buisson's Children's Nurseries UK Market Report 2014, published last week, which highlights the first significant rise in the number of nurseries since the mid-2000s.

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