Bupa has announced a multi-million pound investment in its dental business.
Today, Bupa announced a multi-million pound investment to grow its dental business and become one of the largest private dental chains in the UK by 2015.
The healthcare group plans will be to add 50 additional private dental centres to its existing portfolio by 2015.
The new centres will aim to provide customers with quality and affordable dentistry in major UK cities.
They will be located close to workplaces and appointments will be available outside of office hours.
Stuart Fletcher, chief executive at Bupa, said: "Customers tell us that they want convenient, high quality, good value dental care and this is something that we are able to deliver.
"Bupa has been in the business of healthcare for over sixty years, and because we have no shareholders, we can invest the money we make into more and better healthcare. This major investment in private dentistry is part of our long-term commitment to investing in healthcare in Britain."
The private dentistry market is worth £2.4bn and the market is forecast to grow at 2.7% each year over the next 5 years, according to the IBISWorld Industry Report: Dental Practices in the UK in April.
