When the last issue of Nursery Chains was published in June the same names remained in the top 20 for the first time since we compiled our league table in summer 2001.
This time round there is only one new entry in the top 20, but several recent acquisitions and mergers means that several of the larger chains have expanded rapidly in the past six months and one chain has disappeared.
The number of places for the top 20 chains for winter 2003 is just under 48,000, an increase of 4,000 since the June issue of Nursery Chains. This time last year this figure stood at just under 42,000.
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