ABC Learning to Buy Peppercorn, Child Care Centres
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ABC Learning Centres Ltd., Australia&#39;s biggest day-care operator, plans to spend A$380 million ($264 million) buying rivals to cut costs and lift its share of the nation&#39;s market to a fifth.
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TORONTO (CP) - The daily dash between kindergarten and day care could one day be a thing of the past for Ontario parents under a provincial plan unveiled Thursday to dramatically increase the number of available day care spaces.
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Bird&#39;s custard and Angel Delight are back in British hands after a Â£70m deal announced yesterday. The famous brands have been bought by Premier Foods, owner of Ambrosia custard and Rowntrees jelly, from the US food group Kraft.
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Children&#39;s Place Retail Stores Inc. on Wednesday said it agreed to buy Walt Disney Co.&#39;s ailing chain of Disney Store in North America, giving Children&#39;s Place added presence in the newborn to 10-year-old market.
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The company commits to another five years of its Partners in Learning program, but hopes that for roughly the same it spent in the first five years, it will be able to reach twice as many students and teachers in the next five.
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The discount retailer readies its back-to-school quarterly report.
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Electronic publisher Thomson Corp.   said on Monday it will buy test provider Capstar from  Educational Testing Service, the latest in a string of  acquisitions designed to flesh out its product offerings.
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Children&#39;s Place Retail Stores Inc. (PLCE.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it will buy 313 retail stores from Walt Disney Co.
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Educate Inc., the parent of Sylvan Learning Centers and Catapult Learning, said yesterday that it had agreed to purchase Gateway Learning Corp., which owns the Hooked on Phonics brand.
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Benn announces new safeguards at Pirbright facility.
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Retail billionaire Philip Green is to set up a Â£10m retail academy to help find the entrepreneurs of the future.
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The Children&#39;s Place Retail Stores Inc. announced Wednesday it will buy The Walt Disney Co.&#39;s flagging retail chain in an effort to become a bigger player in the infant to preteen market.
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The federal Labor leader has promised to spend $1.6 billion boosting child care, including providing a free day of care each week for some children.
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And a new code of practice ICSTIS, the UK's premium-rate regulator, has launched a site to explain to children how premium-rate services operate, and how to avoid being ripped off.â¦
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Shorenstein Co. LLC of San Francisco and the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio this week completed the sale of Bay Colony Corporate Center office park in Waltham to Beacon Capital Partners LLC for $272.5 million. Cushman &amp; Wakefield of Massachusetts represented the sellers in the sale of the 987,923-square-foot, four-building complex on Route 128 overlooking the Cambridge Reservoir. The ...
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TORONTO -- Kindergarten-age children in Ontario will receive a full day of child care under a vaunted new plan unveiled Thursday by the provincial government.
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Kid&#39;s clothing retailer Children&#39;s Place agreed to buy Disney&#39;s 313 North American retail stores, the companies said yesterday.