PBN names Best Places To Work for 2011

PROVIDENCE – Providence Business News and Best Companies Group announced Wednesday the 2011 winners of the annual Best Places To Work competition.

The 40 companies – split into three divisions based on their size, ranging from 15-49 employees to 50-149 employees to 150+ employees – were chosen based on responses to a management questionnaire as well as a confidential employee survey.

This marks the sixth year that PBN has sponsored the Best Places To Work program, which is conducted by Best Companies. The winners will be celebrated at a dinner to be held Thursday, June 9, from 5:30-8 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Providence-Warwick. Rankings within each category will be revealed then. To make reservations to attend, email Events@PBN.com.

Five companies have been named to the Best Places To Work list in each of the six years PBN has sponsored it: Edward Jones, South Kingstown; Embrace Home Loans(formerly Advanced Financial Services Inc.), Middletown; Hinckley Allen Snyder, Providence; Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co., Providence; and Perspectives Corp., North Kingstown.

Additional sponsors for the 2011 Best Places To Work program are: Collette Vacations; Cox Business; the Rhode Island Society for Human Resource Management; Tufts Health Plan; and USI-Mastors & Servant Insurance.

The winners, by category and in alphabetical order, are:

Small (15-49)

• Alex and Ani

• Custom Computer Specialists Inc.

• DarrowEverett LLP

• Edward Jones

• Embolden

• Envision Technology Advisors LLC

• Kforce

• Provider Insurance Group Inc.

• Province Mortgage Associates Inc.

• Quality Partners of Rhode Island

• ShapeUp

• Taylor Duane Barton Gilman LLP

• Tele-Consultants Inc.

• United Way of Rhode Island

Mid-size (50-149)

• A Child’s University

• Accutrust Mortgage Inc.

• Barnum Financial Group

• Highlander Charter School

• Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP

• Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co. Ltd.

• Koch Eye Associates

• Oceanstate Financial Services

• Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

• Providence Mutual Fire Insurance Co.

• Tides Family Services

Large (150+)

• AIPSO

• Amgen Inc.

• Atrion Networking Corp.

• BankNewport

• Children’s Friend

• Collette Vacations

• Embrace Home Loans Inc.

• Narragansett Bay Commission

• Navigant Credit Union

• Pawtucket Credit Union

• Perspectives Corporation

• SEA CORP

• Taco Inc.

• The Washington Trust Co.

• University Medicine