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On the Record · Bright Horizons Family Solutions

Bright Horizons Family Solutions acquisitions, on the record

The businesses Bright Horizons Family Solutions bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

BusinessDealWhenValue
child care centers
Word for word“In 2023, we acquired 10 child care centers.” 10-K for 2023
acquisitionIn 2023—
Corporate Family Solutions, Inc.
Word for word“In 1998, we transformed our organization through the merger of Bright Horizons, Inc. and Corporate Family Solutions, Inc., both then Nasdaq-listed companies founded in 1986 and 1987, respectively.” 10-K for 2025
mergerIn 1998—
As filedReported in the company's financial data (XBRL), each linked to its filing
Fiscal year endedCash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired)Goodwill from acquisitions
2016-12-31$228.7 million$148.8 million
2017-12-31$21.5 million$14.3 million
2018-12-31$67.1 million$60.3 million
2019-12-31$53.4 million$54.6 million
2020-12-31$8.3 million$4.1 million
2021-12-31$53.9 million$54.1 million
2022-12-31$210.4 million$292.2 million
2023-12-31$39.6 million$37.2 million
2024-12-31$8.3 million$17 million
2025-12-31$6.8 million$4.9 million

Deal filings since 2016

Read from Bright Horizons Family Solutions’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-26. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.