Update on For Profit Organizations

For 26 years Exchange has published a status report on for profit child care in it's January issue (many of which can be accessed in its recently updated CD book, Early Childhood Education Trend Report).  In the January 2013 report, we compared the growth rates since 2009 of four segments of the for profit sector in North America:

• National Chains — the five largest for profit child care organizations in North America - total licensed capacity has decreased by 4% since 2009.

• Regional Chains — 10 organizations operating in multiple states with total licensed capacity between 7,000 and 24,000 - increased their combined licensed capacity by nearly 13%.

• Local Chains — 20 organizations operating in one or more metropolitan areas with total licensed capacities of less than 7,000 -- 6 of the 20 organizations sampled did not grow or decreased in size, while 7 increased by over 15%.

• Franchise Enterprises — five organizations providing franchises to individual operators of child care centers -- fastest growing segment -- since 2009 the total licensed capacity of centers franchised by the five enterprises sampled increased by nearly 30%.

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