Thanks to the close cooperation with Bright Horizons, the pme Familienservice Group can now also offer its business customers in the USA, the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands high-quality childcare and employee assisstance (EAP). At the same time, the cooperation opens up interesting opportunities for the development of new services and consulting and international cooperation in personnel recruitment and qualification.
In the words of Alexa Ahmad, Managing Director of the pme Familienservice Group: "The partnership with Bright Horizons will enable us to better serve the needs of our international corporate clients and their team members in the future. At the same time, we are looking forward to the new opportunities that international collaboration often brings.
Bright Horizons attaches strategic importance to the cooperation with pme Familienservice and has therefore secured shares in pme Familienservice GmbH. "This investment confirms our commitment to developing key markets together with our international customers," emphasizes Stephen Kramer, Managing Director of Bright Horizons.
About the pme Familienservice Group
The success story of the pme Familienservice Group began in 1991. Gisela Erler brought the idea of advising companies on work-life balance issues from America to Germany and founded the company pme Familienservice. She planted the seed for a rapidly growing new service industry. Today, the pme Familienservice Group supports employees on behalf of more than 900 companies, authorities and associations in successfully reconciling work and private life so that they can devote themselves to professional tasks with a clear head and remain productive and healthy.
The pme Familienservice Group is represented at more than 70 locations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, employs over 1,900 of its own team members and has a large external network of experts.
About Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc.
Families around the world rely on Bright Horizons for childcare and education. Operating approximately 1,100 childcare centers, Bright Horizons is responsible for the year-round care of over 120,000 children in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada and India. More than 1,100 of the world's leading employers from a wide range of business sectors rely on Bright Horizons' services. Back-up care for children and dependent elderly people as well as education and budget advice help employees at every stage of their lives and careers and support people in successfully balancing their professional and private lives.
Press contact:
pme Familienservice GmbH
Press spokesman
Daniel Erler
Flottwellstrasse 4 - 5
10785 Berlin
Tel: (0)30 26393566
E-mail: daniel.erler@familienservice.de
