The £45m deal - the largest acquistion of this year - brings the total number of nurseries owned by Bright Horizions Family Solutions in the UK to 203, offering 15,500 childcare places.
The international company, which has headquarters in the United States, operates more than 750 childcare centres worldwide.
The acquisition sees the nursery group edge closer in size to the biggest UK childcare provider Busy Bees, which has 214 settings and 19,509 places.
Founded in 1983, kidsunlimited operates 64 settings including workplace nurseries for employers such as WH Smith, Cambridge University Hospitals and the University of Oxford, across the North-West, London and the South-East.
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