Date	ArticleType
10/9/2009	Releases
SOUTH CAROLINA’S BEST PLACES TO WORK ANNOUNCED
SOUTH CAROLINA’S BEST PLACES TO WORK ANNOUNCED   Winners Johnson & Johnson, Best Places to Work in the Small/Medium Employers category. October 9, 2009 Contact: Julie Scott 803-799-4601 julie.scott@scchamber.net (Columbia, S.C.) – The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) – SC State Council and the publishers of SC BIZ magazine are pleased to announce rankings of the Best Places to Work in South Carolina. Presented by Nexsen Pruet LLC, the Best Places to Work recognize South Carolina’s most innovative and top-notch employers. The 2009 rankings were announced at an awards banquet October 8. For Small/Medium Employers (15-249 employees), the rankings are: Johnson & Johnson, Charleston SynTerra, Greenville Select Health of South Carolina, Inc., Charleston Clover Community Bank, Clover KeenanSuggs Insurance, Columbia Life Cycle Engineering, Charleston McAngus Goudelock & Courie, Columbia Environmental Express, Mount Pleasant Longleaf Holdings USA, LLC, Spartanburg First Reliance Bank, Florence C. F. Evans & Company, Inc., Orangeburg First Community Bank, Lexington Buist Moore Smythe McGee P.A., Charleston South Carolina Education Lottery, Columbia For Large Employers (250 or more employees), the rankings are: Edward Jones, Florence Elliott Davis, LLC, Greenville AgFirst Farm Credit Bank, Columbia Palmetto Health, Columbia Stanley, Inc., North Charleston Seibels, Bruce & Company, Columbia The innovative Best Places to Work program has quickly emerged as the standard for workplace achievement and creativity in South Carolina. The Best Places to Work competition is open to all South Carolina for-profit and not-for-profit organizations with at least 15 employees working in South Carolina. “South Carolina is home to some of the best places to work in the nation. Congratulations to these innovative companies that are setting the example as superb organizations for our state’s workforce to prosper,” said Otis B. Rawl Jr., president and chief executive officer of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce.   The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s first state chamber Accredited with Distinction by the U.S. Chamber, is the state’s largest statewide broad-based business and industry trade association representing more than 6,500 member companies and more than 600,000 member employees, with 90 percent of membership comprised of small businesses. As the unified voice for business and industry, the Chamber is a catalyst for increasing per capita income and enhancing the state’s global competitiveness in order to improve the quality of life for all South Carolinians.