2008 Best Places to Work to be honored June 4

PROVIDENCE – For the third time in as many years, Best Companies Group, in conjunction with Providence Business News, has named the Best Places To Work in Rhode Island.

The 23 organizations, which range from large (150 or more employees) to medium (50 to 149 employees) to small companies with as few as 15 employees, were judged on their responses to both an extensive management report as well as a 66-question employee survey. The resulting data were compiled by Best Companies, an independent research organization based in Harrisburg, Pa., which then chose the winners.

This year’s Best Places To Work honorees will be fêted at an awards dinner Wednesday, June 4, at the Crowne Plaza at the Crossings hotel in Warwick. (Note new date!) The rankings in the individual categories will be revealed at the event, which is slated to start at 5:30 p.m.

Eight companies have been included on the Best Places To Work list in each of the three years that PBN has sponsored the competition: Advanced Financial Services Inc., in Middletown; Cox Communications, in West Warwick; Edward Jones, in South Kingstown; Falvey Cargo Underwriting Ltd., South Kingstown; Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP, in Providence; Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co. Ltd., in Providence; Perspectives Corp., in North Kingstown; and Shawmut Design & Construction, in Providence.

Additional sponsors for the 2008 Best Places to Work in Rhode Island competition include USI Insurance, Cox Business, Collette Vacations, AARP of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island state council of the Society of Human Resource Managers.

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

Large (150 or more employees)
• Advanced Financial Services Inc.
• BankNewport
• Cintas Corp.
• Collette Vacations
• Cox Communications
• Perspectives Corp.

Medium (50 to 149 employees)
• Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP
• Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co. Ltd
• KPMG LLP
• Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP
• Starkweather & Shepley Insurance
• The Providence Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
• Tofias PC
• United Way of Rhode Island

Small (15 to 49 employees)
• Aero Mechanical
• Brokers Service Marketing Group
• Edward Jones
• Falvey Cargo Underwriting, Ltd.
• Nixon Peabody LLP
• Pannone Lopes & Devereaux LLC
• Shawmut Design & Construction
• SolarWrights Inc.
• Taylor Duane Barton & Gilman LLP