Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, February 27, 1994 TAG: 9402250367
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B-1 EDITION: METRO
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And, when First Union Corp. acquired Dominion last year, employees were relieved to hear that not only did First Union National Bank of Virginia president Ben Jenkins plan to keep the child care center, but also had plans to improve and expand it.
It's not news that Dominion was one of the first employers in the country to offer corporate child care, but it may come as a surprise that it was because of Dominion Bank that a company was formed for the sole purpose of helping other companies create child care solutions.
Corporate Child Care Managment Services, headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., was founded by Lamar Alexander, a former Tennessee governor and secretary of education during the Bush administration; Marguerite Sallee, who served on Alexander's cabinet as Tennessee's commissioner of human resources; and Bob Keeshan, who's better known to television audiences as Captain Kangaroo.
On a trip through Roanoke, Keeshan visited Dominion's child care facility and raved about it to Alexander, who was looking for a good business opportunity.
Corporate Child Care was founded in 1987 to help companies create child care solutions by doing consulting work, and developing and managing child care centers nationwide for corporate clients.
Today the company employees 1,000 and operates and manages 32 corporate child care centers. Their client roster includes such corporations as The Prudential; Sears, Roebuck & Co.; J.C. Penney Co.; Marriott Corp.; and automakers Saturn and Toyota.
And in 1992, it added Dominion Bankshares - now First Union Corp. The center on Plantation Road is operated and managed by Corporate Child Care.
According to First Union spokesman Dave Scanzoni, the banking company has no current plans to open similar on-site centers in the other seven states in which the bank operates.
by CNB