Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/regional-chains-driving-growth-of-for-profit-child-care-sector/5017331/
As we approached this historic 20th annual status report on for profit child care, we decided that this special occasion required some special efforts:• First, we decided to reach out aggressively to include new players on the scene to include on our heralded Exchange Top 40 list.
• Second, we are focusing our attention in this year’s report on Regional chains, organizations providing early childhood services in more than 20 locations in two or more states.
Welcome to new players
We are grateful to all our friends throughout North America who helped us identify new and emerging multi-site organizations. The health of this field is marked by the fact that there is a continual flow of new people into the field opening and growing early childhood businesses. In fact, we were so successful in uncovering new programs, that this year our list has been expanded to be the Exchange Top 50, including a separate list of the largest franchise operations.
We welcome all the programs listed for the first time this year. All of the newly listed programs are highlighted in italics on the list. In addition, we, no doubt, have not found all the organizations that qualify to be on this ...