Asquith up for auction?

Lyceum Capital, formerly West Private Equity, is considering bids for Asquith Nurseries Ltd, NCMN understands.A price tag of £100m for the UK’s second largest...

SNL to take controlling interest in CEC

Creative Education Corporation shareholders have given the go-ahead to the AIM-listed company to waive stock market rules so that investment vehicle Solent Nominees Limited...

A smaller but tighter ship at Nestor

Nestor, the listed health and social care business, has released its preliminary full year results – the first since it spun off its healthcare...

Comeback Kidsunlimited

After a disastrous set of results (NCMN November 2006), Kidsunlimited appear to be clawing back the losses experienced in 2005 after tightening up its...

Ravenstone House sells majority of its portfolio

Major provider Ravenstone House has disposed of ten of its settings for almost £8m as its private equity backer Pacific Investments sought an exit...

BHFS Inc. prelims

Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BHFS) Inc, which claims to be the world’s largest workplace childcare provider, managing more than 600 settings in the USA,...

Stationary strategy proves positive for Child Base

Despite making no new additions to its portfolio, 2006 was another very positive year for Child Base Limited. The company made sales of £19.4m,...

Casterbridge results

Casterbridge Care and Education Group Limited has reported revenues of £6.7m and an operating profit of £407,000 for the period from18 November 2004 to...

Careforce in £22m takeover

As CCMN went to press news broke that domiciliary care provider Careforce had accepted a takeover bid from social housing repairs and maintenance provider...

Acquisition grows Keys Childcare by 25%

The Midlands-based Keys Childcare group has acquired five residential care homes and a mobile crisis care operation in Lancashire following the purchase of Nationwide...