BRIGHT HORIZONS FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC.

Overview

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. provides early education and child care, back-up care, and education-related advisory services, often as employer-sponsored benefits. Its services include center-based early education and child care, back-up care for children and adults, and education assistance such as tuition support and student-loan repayment programs.[1]+2

The company describes its mission as “to change lives” through high-quality education and care. Its operations span the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, and India; at year-end 2025, it operated 1,010 centers and served more than 1,450 employers.[4][5] Bright Horizons reported 2025 revenue of approximately $2.93 billion and more than 32,000 employees globally, according to its March 2025 company fact sheet.[6][7] [1]+8

Products & services

Bright Horizons’ full-service center-based offering includes early education and child care, preschool, and elementary education. Centers operate under cost-plus management contracts or a profit-and-loss model, which may provide employer-sponsored exclusive or priority enrollment or serve families in the surrounding community. Services include center operations and management of staffing, training, vendors, supplies, tuition collection, and receivables. The company describes an education approach informed by early-learning and child-development research, supported by teacher training and evidence-based instructional practices.[8]+2

Back-up care and care coordination cover disruptions to regular care and include center-based and in-home child care, dedicated back-up centers, school-age programs and camps, in-home senior care, adult center-based care, tutoring, pet care, and reimbursed self-sourced care. Services are delivered through Bright Horizons centers and caregivers and a third-party provider network. Sittercity is an online marketplace connecting families with child-care providers, including babysitters and nannies, as well as pet-care services.[3]

Educational advisory services include EdAssist, which administers employer tuition-assistance and student-loan-repayment programs, offers workforce education and advising, and uses proprietary software to process reimbursement and repayment transactions and analyze data. Its services also include one-on-one employee advising and access to an education network with pre-negotiated tuition discounts. College Coach provides college-admissions and college-financing advice.[11][12]

In FY2025, revenue was $2,081.1 million from full-service center-based care, $728.0 million from back-up care, and $124.5 million from educational advisory services, out of $2,933.6 million total. These represented approximately 71%, 25%, and 4% of revenue, respectively.[13] [8]+9

Geographic presence

Bright Horizons operates in the United States, including Puerto Rico, and internationally in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, and India. Its childcare centers outside North America are primarily in the U.K., Netherlands, and Australia. At year-end 2025, it reported 597 centers in North America and 413 outside North America, 1,010 in total; the filing does not give country-by-country center counts.[14][15]

In FY2025, North America accounted for approximately 71% of revenue and regions outside North America approximately 29%, based on reported revenues of $2,090.9 million and $842.7 million, respectively. The U.S. generated substantially all North American revenue; the U.K. generated $506.9 million, about 17.3% of total revenue, while each other operating country contributed less than 10%.[16][17] The company reported 32,000-plus employees globally in March 2025, including 18,000-plus in the U.S.; a country-level employee breakdown was not provided.[18][19] [14]+6

Business segments

Bright Horizons reports three business segments. **Full Service Center-Based Child Care** provides center-based early education and child care, including preschool and elementary education; it accounted for about 71% of FY2025 revenue and 74% of revenue in the first half of 2026.[9]+2 **Back-Up Care** provides backup care for children, adults and pets through center-based and in-home services, as well as school-age programs and a caregiver marketplace; it represented about 25% of FY2025 revenue and 23% in the first half of 2026.[9]+2

**Educational Advisory Services** includes employer-sponsored tuition assistance and student-loan-repayment program management, workforce education advising, and college-admissions counseling. It contributed about 4% of FY2025 revenue and 4% in the first half of 2026.[9]+3 Revenue shares are approximate and calculated from segment revenue as a proportion of consolidated revenue for each period. [9]+9

Company history

Bright Horizons was founded in 1986 by Roger Brown and Linda Mason, initially providing employer-sponsored child care. Corporate Family Solutions, Inc., another predecessor, was founded in 1987; the two businesses merged on July 24, 1998, forming Bright Horizons Family Solutions.[4][22]

The company expanded its services through the 2005 acquisition of ChildrenFirst and the 2006 acquisition of College Coach, adding child-care operations and college-admissions support, respectively.[23][24] In May 2008, Bright Horizons was acquired and became privately held. It returned to public markets with an IPO completed in January 2013 and a New York Stock Exchange listing under BFAM.[22][25] David Lissy served as chief executive through January 2018, when Stephen Kramer succeeded him.[26]+2 [4]+13

Sources

• BRIGHT HORIZONS FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC. — Full financial report (2025 Y)
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