From three to 17 childcare centres
The first childcare centre moved to Wiesenstrasse in Baden in 1978 and is now called “Chinderhuus”. Five years earlier, the second BBC childcare centre had been founded at the Turgi site. The company’s third childcare centre was not set up until 1993, this time in Oerlikon. In 1996, the childcare centres were converted into a legally independent association. This meant that external companies could also make use of the childcare centres’ services by becoming Association members. Today there are 15 ABB childcare centres in total and two ABB after-school/holiday centres.
This year, the Association of ABB Childcare Centres is celebrating a double anniversary: 50 years since the establishment of the first childcare centre and 20 years since the Association was founded. The Association has grown enormously over the last 20 years, and it now includes 15 childcare centres and two after-school/holiday centres. Some 280 employees look after almost 1,000 children.
Picture: A special tribute to say goodbye to Edith Becciolini (holding the flowers), who has worked on the board of the Association of ABB Childcare Centres since the very beginning.
Among the guests, Director Jeannette Good welcomed former ABB Country Manager Rolf Schaumann, former Head of HR at ABB Switzerland and the first Chairman of the Association of ABB Childcare Centres René Lichtsteiner, National Councillor and Chairwoman of kibesuisse Rosmarie Quadranti and Mayor of Baden Geri Müller.
In his speech, René Lichtsteiner, former Head of HR at ABB Switzerland and the first Chairman of the Association of ABB Childcare Centres, looked back at the Association’s earliest years and the change in childcare requirements and expressed his pride at being part of this success story.
