Ten years before Melissa Giambalvo even had children, the on-site child care option offered by her employer, pharmaceutical firm Boehringer Ingelheim, was a selling point to her accepting the job.
Now the mother of two young boys, Giambalvo’s appreciation for Apple Blossom Learning Center has only grown. Located at Boehringer Ingelheim’s U.S. headquarters in Ridgefield, Connecticut, the center is owned and operated by the company and managed and staffed by KinderCare. Giambalvo’s three-and-a-half-year-old, Oliver, has been attending since 2022, and her four-month-old, Harrison, just began after her recent return from maternity leave.
