Great River Energy named “Best Place to Work” by Business Journal

MINNEAPOLIS – The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal has selected 45 companies in the Twin Cities as the 2008 Business Journal Best Places to Work. Companies were ranked in small, medium and large categories. The companies earned the honor based on surveys completed by employees rating their employers on such issues as work environment, embracing innovations/new ideas, people practices, personal growth and development, people in the organization and how things work day-to-day. Profiles of the Business Journal Best Places to Work winners are featured in the August 15 issue of the Business Journal.

We had our greatest number of nominations this year. More than 200 companies participated.

2008 Best Places to Work Winners:

Administaff Inc.
Arts Midwest
Azul 7
C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.
Capella Education Co.
Carmichael Lynch
Certes Financial Professionals Corp.
Clockwork Active Media Systems
CMGRP Inc.
Colliers Turley Martin Tucker
Comcast
Ecolab Inc.
Ecumen
First Financial USA Ltd.
Fortune Financial
Fredrikson & Byron
Goff & Howard Inc.
Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett
Great River Energy
Harbinger Partners Inc.
HealthEast Care System
Horizontal Integration
Intertech Inc.
Into the Mystic Inc.
JRA Financial Advisors
Lakeview Health
Lancet Software Development Inc.
LarsonAllen
Lindquist & Vennum
Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc.
Olson
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly
Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg + Gotlieb
RBA Inc.
Reside
Riverbridge Partners
Salo
Securian Financial Group Inc.
Solution Design Group Inc.
SPS Commerce
Tobin Real Estate Co.
Vibrant Technologies Inc.
Wells Fargo
Wenck Associates Inc.
Winthrop & Weinstine

To be eligible for consideration as a Business Journal Best Place to Work, companies had to have an office in the Twin Cities 11-county metro area with 10 or more employees, or be Minnesota-based companies with at least 1,000 employees in the state. They also had to have a certain number of employees, depending on company size, complete the online survey.

The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal delivers breaking business news and useful information to more than 111,000 readers each week and provides the most comprehensive news, rankings and information about Twin Cities businesses. http://twincities.bizjournals.com.

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