AUSTRALIA'S only remaining publicly listed child-care company hopes to exploit the collapse of ABC Learning to move into the Victorian market.
Gold Coast-based Early Learning Services emerged yesterday as a possible major player in the future of ABC Learning's 1040 centres after it announced it was interested in taking over some of them.
Company founder and chief executive John Hutchison said he had received about a dozen approaches in the past two weeks from people who wanted to join his company in taking over parts of the ABC business.
He said these included landlords who leased property to ABC Learning.
Mr Hutchison said he saw ABC's decline as an opportunity to expand his company's network by as many as 200 centres. It currently runs 44 centres in NSW, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the ACT.
Early Learning Services is the nation's only listed child-care company following the collapse of ABC Learning two weeks ago and CFK Childcare Centres on Tuesday.
Gold Coast-based Early Learning Services emerged yesterday as a possible major player in the future of ABC Learning's 1040 centres after it announced it was interested in taking over some of them.
Company founder and chief executive John Hutchison said he had received about a dozen approaches in the past two weeks from people who wanted to join his company in taking over parts of the ABC business.
He said these included landlords who leased property to ABC Learning.
Mr Hutchison said he saw ABC's decline as an opportunity to expand his company's network by as many as 200 centres. It currently runs 44 centres in NSW, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the ACT.
Early Learning Services is the nation's only listed child-care company following the collapse of ABC Learning two weeks ago and CFK Childcare Centres on Tuesday.
