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Knowledge Universe owned Busy Bees from 2009 until it was sold in late 2013 to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. He used the attitude gained from opening the group’s first UK nursery in 1984. “We were a bunch of teachers and friends – six of us. We sold our houses to fund it. When we started 35 years ago, a lot of my colleagues said: ‘You’re crazy. You’re giving up a great job. You’re taking on such a risk.’ I quite like proving people wrong. Queens are sent on a 1 stclass Royal Mail. Queens are sent in a travelling cage with several attendants, candy and full introduction instructions.

Better outcomes for young children is at the heart of all we do, whether those children are in my home town in the UK or overseas, we’re completely committed to our mission. He said he had his eye on the business then and that he had been in talks to buy it since the middle of last year. The nurseries care for more than 6,500 mainly expatriate children aged from two months to six years. Now the group has 213 nurseries, 7,000 employees and looks after 20,000 children aged from three months up to five years. Milken, who headed Drexel Burnham’s high-yield bond department in the 1980s, was not directly involved in the talks, he said.On her first trade mission to China, Prime Minister Theresa May held up Busy Bees Nursery Group as the poster child for Britain, with early years provision that has led China to embrace education for children under two. Glass Jars are sent at the consignees own risk. We regret neither ourselves or the carrier will take responsibility for breakages.

Speaking in Shanghai, during her trade mission in February, Theresa May said: “Now when people think of international trade, I’m sure early years childcare isn’t the first thing that springs to mind. But Busy Bees’ presence here shows just how diverse the British export offer is, just how much we have to offer in China.” John Woodward, Busy Bees’ co-founder and managing director, oversaw the Singapore and Malaysia nurseries for Knowledge Universe in 2013.

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Harbin is linked to the Asian International College. Yes, we will look to open more training colleges.Teachers should be what most parents want for their child. Staff should be personable, have empathy, smile, have character and energy.” With different languages, time zones and business etiquette to contend with, John Woodward, the president of Busy Bees which runs 344 UK nurseries, also saw that in China the average school is much bigger than those in the UK. Gordon Marks, executive director of True Source Honey, said its certification programme was designed to “help prevent illegal trade in honey that circumvents US law and that has the potential to harm the reputation of all honey sold in North America”. He added: “True Source Honey is committed to ensuring that honey is sourced in a transparent and traceable manner and is authentic.” And although China’s employers had well-qualified staff on paper, they were not creative thinkers. Busy Bees’ business partner OCEG knew that in relation to education in China - the creativity just wasn’t there. June Rusdon, who heads the operation, will be Busy Bees’ chief executive in south-east Asia, and Woodward will split his time between the UK and Singapore, where Busy Bees has also bought a training college.

And children in China will often sit with an open mouth, while their grandparent puts food in it. “To have a child wearing a top with spilt soup, that is a loss of face”, explains Yvonne Smillie, Busy Bees’ international project co-ordinator. But the new nursery is teaching children independent skills such as feeding themselves. Their first nursery opened in September 2017 in Harbin (see picture), in the northerly province of Heilongjiang, China. Some Harbin history: In a statement in December, True Source said it was updating its certification standards in 2021 to include “cutting-edge technologies to detect sugars/syrups”. The Teachers' private equity arm wanted to buy a childcare business and, after scouring Europe and North America, decided Busy Bees had the most exportable brand and the best processes and management team. But she warns: “We have a responsibility to be careful. There is more structure in Harbin than in an English nursery. We have to be mindful that they will go on to very structured schools. If we don’t prepare them for that, we will have failed them.”

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The nursery group, which already has a 200-place setting in the country, will open a further five settings in China this year, followed by another 27 by 2023, in partnership with its Chinese stakeholder - Oriental Cambridge Education Group (OCEG). Cultural differences may exist between England and China but can be overcome. In China, one child may have six people overseeing their development; two parents and two sets of grandparents. As a result, one may take charge of health matters, another clothing, another education and another food. On Busy Bees’ global expansion, he says: “Sometime in the future we’ll do an acquisition in the US. We’re also looking to expand in Australia, the rest of South East Asia, Vietnam, Philippines”. The acquisition is said to leave Randles, Woodward and finance director Simon Irons with significant minority stakes in the company. About 15 members of staff are equity holders.

There may be an additional carriage charge for some heavy and bulky items to Northern Ireland, the Scottish Highlands and islands, Isle of Man and off-shore islands. That deal also saw Michael Milken, the US junk bond king who served nearly two years in prison for securities violations, become Busy Bees' majority owner through his Knowledge Universe firm.Busy Bees, the leading UK childcare provider, and largest with 329 nurseries nationwide in the UK has now come to China! Honey fraud can take many forms, from harvesting honey from beehives before it has matured and drying it artificially, to adding cheap sugars and syrups. Various tests can detect the presence of some added sugars, but those from rice, wheat, sugar beet, cassava and potatoes can evade traditional testing methods. We opened our first nursery in 1984, due to our demand for quality care and education for our children. Since then we’ve developed a national network of 344 local nurseries in the UK. In 2015 we saw an opportunity to expand internationally and we now have 73 nurseries in South East Asia. Due to its success we’ve been looking to expand in key markets across the globe. HS1, the UK's only high-speed rail link, linking London and the Channel Tunnel (owned jointly with fellow Canadian pension fund OMERS) John Woodward said, ‘I feel immensely proud and delighted that Busy Bees has been complimented for its success in China. Last week’s visit afforded many opportunities for us to discuss our experiences and plans with international leaders and UK businesses looking to expand in this part of the world.