Bright Horizons Family Solutions

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Bright Horizons Family Solutions is a US-based child-care provider and is the largest provider of employer-sponsored child care.^[1]

The result of a merger in 1998 between Massachusetts-based Bright Horizons (founded in 1986 by Linda Mason and Roger Brown)^[2] and Corporate Family Solutions (founded in 1987 by Bob Keeshan, former Tennessee Governor and current U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander and Marguarite Salle).

In 2008, Bright Horizons Family Solutions was named for the ninth time to Fortune Magazine's annual "100 Best Places to Work in America."[1]

Bright Horizons operates more than 600 child care centers worldwide, more than 500 across the U.S. and more than 100 in the UK and Ireland. The company also operates centers in Canada and Puerto Rico. Bright Horizons child care centers are typically sponsored by major employers and operated for employees of the sponsoring companies. Their clients include nearly 100 Fortune 500 companies, as well as other corporations, hospitals, universities, government agencies, and service firms. In addition to its core service of child care the company offers its clients a networks of back-up child care and elder care, operates six elementary schools and offers college admissions counseling through its College Coach division.

Bright Horizons is well regarded for a strong reputation for quality and its high record of accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The company was publicly traded on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol: BFAM until it was acquired by Bain Capital Partners in May of 2008.