Rodolphe and Edouard Carle founded Babilou in 2003 with a long-term vision and conviction that they could have a strong impact on tomorrow’s world through childcare and early years education. The company grew progressively at first, establishing a solid basis for further expansion – and in 2012, with a leading in position in France, the founders began to look for opportunities to share their expertise and experience abroad.

Our international development strengthens the Group by diversifying revenue sources, models and underlying economic cycles. Above all, it brings more value to children and our teams. We all learn from each other’s educational systems. We share best practices and are constantly enriching our curriculums.

What better way to learn about a new culture and the quality education expectations of parents and families than to work with local entrepreneurs with a strong footing each country?

We sign partnerships with passionate, talented entrepreneurs. Babilou takes a minority stake at first to give each party time to learn from each other, with a view to gradually increasing ownership and integrating the organization into the Group.

Babilou’s leaders and partners all share the same entrepreneurial DNA - and as a family-owned company, free from short-term ROI obligations, we are able to commit ourselves to an ambitious, long-term strategy. That’s why we encourage our community of entrepreneurs to continuously improve their services and facilities, maintain the highest quality education standards and grow organically or through acquisitions.

Thanks to our strong financial backing, we are able to support our entrepreneurs’ development by :

• Helping them to finance acquisitions or open new schools
• Sharing our experience of structuring care and early years education organizations (particularly when there 30+ under management)
• Providing constant support through our resources and expert teams at head office: IT systems, digital strategy, social and economic performance, quality management, purchasing, M&A...
• Organizing regular meetings with fellow entrepreneurs to share experiences and best practices

We dynamize our partners’ development while leaving their identity and daily autonomy untouched - if you share our share our values and vision, if you are ambitious and want to develop your educational organization to help contribute to a better world, we should talk: a family of entrepreneurs is always stronger than a one-man show.