{"id":359209,"date":"2019-12-03T11:10:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T09:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=359209"},"modified":"2019-12-03T11:10:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T09:10:41","slug":"curro-increases-footprint-in-joburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/359209\/curro-increases-footprint-in-joburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Curro increases footprint in Joburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"st\">The Curro private school group has<\/span> acquired The King\u2019s School Linbro Park, along with two nursery schools known as Land of Oz from two different vendors as part of a plan to extend its reach in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although these acquisitions may not be material, they are strategic from a footprint and\/or operational perspective,&#8221; the group said in a statement on Tuesday (3 December).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kings School Acquisition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The King\u2019s School is a well-known private school situated in Linbro Park, Sandton and was founded in 1986 by Love Reaching Communities Church (then known as Waverley New Covenant).<\/p>\n<p>The King\u2019s School provides educational services to learners from Grade 000 (pre-school) to Grade 12, currently comprising of approximately 390 enrolled learners.<\/p>\n<p>Curro said it plans to further develop the King\u2019s School campus to create additional capacity for approximately 900 additional learners.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings School Acquisition is subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions precedent, none of which are material or likely to impact the implementation of the transaction, Curro said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Land of Oz Acquisition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Land of Oz are well-known nursery schools and were founded in 1987. The Land of Oz nursery schools comprise of two campuses, Fourways and Chartwell, catering for approximately 240 children.<\/p>\n<p>Curro said it plans to further develop the Chartwell campus and to construct a private primary and high school for up to 1,300 learners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both acquisitions are aligned with Curro\u2019s intention to expand its geographical footprint in Gauteng and to extend its education offering, it said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/334511\/curro-lifts-interim-earnings-on-increasing-learner-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Curro lifts interim earnings on increasing learner numbers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Curro private school group has acquired The King\u2019s School Linbro Park, along with two nursery schools known as Land of Oz from two different vendors as part of a plan to extend its reach in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":359213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[8043,26],"class_list":["post-359209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-curro","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359257,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359209\/revisions\/359257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}