Bright Horizons Acquires Scottish Child Care Provider

05/17/2002

Bright Horizons Acquires Scottish Child Care Provider

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
Grace Murray Hopper

US-based Bright Horizons Family Solutions, the world's largest provider of employer-sponsored child care, has acquired Red Apple Nurseries, a high-quality child care provider operating four centers in Scotland. Diane Peden, Principal of Red Apple Nurseries observed, "For more than a decade, we have worked hard to establish the Red Apple Nurseries as the very best choice for the care and education of young children. This new partnership with Bright Horizons Family Solutions will allow the Red Apple Nurseries to broaden its reach and to care for even more children and parents throughout Scotland. It is an exciting development that will build on the foundation we have established in ways we never imagined."

Bright Horizons currently operates more than 400 child care centers in the USA, the UK, Ireland, and Canada. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company operates in England under the name Nurseryworks Family Solutions, and in Ireland as Bright Horizons Ireland.

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