Compiled by Louri Johnson
The St. Louis region and its companies make the national news.
SHAW PARK AQUATIC CENTER IS
AQUATICS INTERNATIONAL’S BEST OF 2008
The city of Clayton, Mo.’s Parks and Recreation Department has received the 10th annual Best in Aquatics Award from Aquatics International, a publication devoted exclusively to the commercial and public swimming pool industries. The award honors the overall operation of the department and reflects the quality of staff, programming and facility management.
Clayton’s aquatics department was selected as the best in the “overall commitment to aquatics—population 49,999 or less” category for 2008.
The competition recognizes the industry’s outstanding aquatic facilities, including competition pools, leisure pools, therapy pools and water parks. Entries are judged on facility programming, promotional materials, aquatic amenities and community involvement. Winners will be recognized in a special Best of Aquatics supplement to the November/December 2008 issue of Aquatics International.
UNIGROUP RANKED NO. 12 ON TRANSPORT TOPICS TOP 100 FOR-HIRE CARRIER LIST
UniGroup Inc. has captured the No. 12 spot on Transport Topics’ Top 100 For-Hire Carrier List, moving up one spot from last year. Transport Topics publishes the list to accurately document the size and scope of the largest trucking operations and provide analysis of the trends shaping the industry. The issue also features financial and operating information on the largest for-hire carriers in the United States and Canada.
One of the nation’s largest privately owned transportation companies, UniGroup Inc. is the parent company of Mayflower Transit, United Van Lines and other transportation-related companies.
INSIDE PUBLIC ACCOUNTING RANKS RSM MCGLADREY AND BKD ON TOP 100 LIST
INSIDE Public Accounting ranked RSM McGladrey, together with CPA firm McGladrey & Pullen, and BKD LLP on its 2008 Top 100 Firms list, a compilation of the largest accounting firms in the country based on net revenue. RSM McGladrey ranked No. 5 overall, while BKD ranked No. 10 overall and No. 1 in the Great Plains region. The magazine published the rankings in its August 2008 issue.
The INSIDE Public Accounting Top 100 list provides a strategic breakdown of how the best firms function, including the statistical data that was used to rank the businesses.
SSM HEALTH CARE’S RYAN NAMED ONE OF MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE ONCE AGAIN
For the sixth consecutive year, Sister Mary Jean Ryan, president/CEO of
St. Louis-based SSM Health Care, has been named one of the 100 most
powerful people in health care by Modern Healthcare magazine. Ryan ranked
No. 13 on this year’s list.
Others named to this year’s list include President George W. Bush, Sen. Barack Obama, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. John McCain. Individuals are ranked based on the number of votes they receive from Modern Healthcare readers.
SSM Health Care is one of the largest Catholic health systems in the country and owns, manages and is affiliated with 20 acute-care hospitals and two nursing homes in Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin and Oklahoma.
INC. MAGAZINE RECOGNIZES LAWRENCE GROUP, MAVERICK TECHNOLOGIES AND TECHNISONIC
AS FASTEST-GROWING PRIVATE COMPANIES
Inc. magazine and Inc.com have named architectural firm Lawrence Group, global engineering, systems integration and operational consulting firm MAVERICK Technologies and Technisonic, a producer of television commercials and corporate films, three of the nation’s 5,000 fastest-growing private companies for 2008 in the magazine’s September issue. The 2008 Inc. 5,000 list measures revenue growth from 2004 through 2007.
Lawrence Group has grown more than 200 percent since the firm was founded in 1983, with revenue of $44.6 million in 2007. Technisonic has experienced 50 percent growth in the last three years with revenue of $6.2 million and 27 employees. MAVERICK Technologies made the Inc. 500 list in 2002, 2003 and 2004 and the Inc. 5,000 in 2007.
For more than 25 years, Inc. has celebrated the success of the fastest-growing private companies in America with the annual Inc. 500 issue. Companies on the list were honored at the 27th annual Inc. 500/Inc. 5,000 Conference and Awards Ceremony in National Harbor, Md.
BLAIR NAMED A TOP FINANCIAL ADVISOR
BY BARRON’S AND WORTH MAGAZINES
Jim Blair, principal and family chief financial officer at Clayton-based Moneta Group, has been cast in the national spotlight thanks to recent commendations from two major publications. Barron’s and Worth magazines, two of the financial industry’s flagship publications, both have chosen Blair for their prestigious annual rankings of top financial advisors.
For the second consecutive year, Barron’s ranked Blair, a certified financial planner professional and an accredited wealth management advisor, one of the country’s Top 100 Independent Financial Advisors. Worth magazine has named Blair one of the country’s Top 250 Wealth Managers for the sixth time.
ST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL NAMED ONE OF MODERN HEALTHCARE’S 100 BEST PLACES TO WORK IN HEALTHCARE
St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield, Mo., has been named one of the 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare. The new program recognizes workplaces in health care that enable employees to perform at their optimum level to provide patients and customers with the best possible care and services.
Other St. Louis-based organizations that appear on the list are Advanced ICU Care and St. John’s Mercy Health Care.
On behalf of Modern Healthcare, the Best Companies Group conducted two surveys of health care companies across the nation that volunteered to participate in the program. The first survey was a questionnaire for the participating employer. The second was a satisfaction survey of the participating employer’s employees.
ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR NAMED ONE OF
BUSINESSWEEK’S BEST PLACES TO LAUNCH A CAREER
For the third straight year, Enterprise Rent-A-Car has been named one of the best
companies for entry-level employees to launch their careers, according to BusinessWeek’s annual ranking. Since BusinessWeek started the ranking in 2006, Enterprise is the only St. Louis-based company to make the list all three years and the only rental car company ever to earn a spot. Enterprise ranked No. 26 out of the top 100 companies.
BusinessWeek used three sources of data to select companies: a survey of college career-services directors, a survey of employers, and a survey of 40,000 U.S. college students conducted by Universum Communications, a Philadelphia research company.
Enterprise also is featured in a new book based on the annual rankings from last year. BusinessWeek Fast Track: The Best Places to Launch a Career, by Lindsey Gerdes, was published this summer by McGraw-Hill.
Anheuser-Busch, the only other St. Louis-based
company named to the list, ranked No. 19.
STAN GELLMAN GRAPHIC DESIGN WINS EIGHT
AMERICAN GRAPHIC DESIGN AWARDS
Stan Gellman Graphic Design Inc. has been awarded winning status in the 2008 American Graphic Design Awards competition by a nationwide panel of judges. This is the eighth consecutive year that the firm has been recognized by this annual design competition. Stan Gellman Graphic Design earned a total of eight awards for the following projects:
—The UniGroup Inc. 2007 Annual Report
—The LaBarge Inc. 2007 Annual Report
—The St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association’s
March 2008 issue of Commerce Magazine and the new Cortex
brochure, Cutting-Edge Biotech Amid Historic Grandeur (two awards)
—The National Center for Parents as Teachers’ 25th Anniversary Capital Campaign and the 2008 Conference Invitation package (two awards)
—The University of Illinois Foundation’s invitation to the Arch Rivalry
football game between the University of Missouri and the
University of Illinois
—The 2008 City of Bridgeton Calendar
For this year’s competition, judges considered more than 10,000 entries from across the country and recognized only 15 percent as winners. The competition honors outstanding work across all media, including print and collateral, advertising and marketing, sales promotion, corporate identity, Internet, packaging, broadcast and motion graphics.
Winning entries will be published in a 300-page annual and seen by an estimated 100,000 creative and marketing decision makers at national shows and events from late 2008 through early 2009.
PARIC CORP. EARNS
2008 VISION AWARD
FOR INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY
Constructech magazine has awarded a 2008 Vision Award to St. Louis-based Paric Corporation for its innovative use of technology. Paric earned the gold and only Vision Award in the “Builder/GC Commercial $251-$500 million”
category.
The Vision Awards honor companies that have realized the advantages of applying innovative technologies to their everyday businesses as well as the technology enablers that have helped them achieve their goal. Paric Corporation began its search in 2003 for a software solution that offered the functionality and integration to power the general contractor and construction manager to the next level.
“We felt our software at that time didn’t provide the integration needed between financial and project management,” said Paric President and CEO P. Joseph McKee. “Concern grew as we considered where we wanted to be in five to fifteen years and felt we needed a solution that would keep pace with our growth. Our Paric team found
and successfully implemented that solution.”
The company implemented a CMiC system that has helped consolidate data, standardize processes, streamline the procurement process and provide more accurate forecasting. Paric is the first CMiC customer to earn a Gold Vision Award.
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