America's Best: Gymboree

SBA and ADP present America’s Best: Their Stories, Their Ways. Joan Barnes created Gymboree in 1976 as a place where moms and their children could play and exercise. Since then, it has become a giant corporation that includes almost 600 Gymboree retail clothing stores and nearly 300 Gymboree Play & Music centers worldwide. Over the years, the corporation received investments totaling nearly $5 million from an SBA-licensed SBIC.