Owned by Bev and Tony Driffield and run as a family business, the chain has expanded rapidly since it was set up in 2002 and now employs more than 425 people. The new acquisition takes the number of places offered by the group to 1,379.
The newly acquired nursery in the Bradley Stoke area of the city will offer 104 places and is Mama Bear’s 13th setting in Bristol. The group’s other nurseries are spread across Devon and Somerset.
In the next few months the group is expanding places at its nursery in Hengrove, Bristol, to 65 places, in January and will open another nursery in Bristol in March, with further settings at the planning stages.
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