2007 Best Places to Work honorees announced

SBJ Publishing Inc. announces its 2007 Best Places to Work in southwest Missouri. Scores were based on employee benefits and incentives and tallied by accounting firm Whitlock, Selim & Keehn LLP, the independent judge for the competition.

The honorees are listed alphabetically by category:

5–24 Employees

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Ozarks, Hammer Collections LLC, Home Builders Association of Greater Springfield, Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce and Schmidt Associates PC

25–100 Employees

Amberg Entertainment Inc., Environmental Works Inc., Kirkpatrick Phillips & Miller CPAs, Ollis & Co., The Insurancenter

101–300 Employees

BancorpSouth, Best Buy Inc., Cody’s Convenience Stores, Community Bank & Trust and Springfield Cardinals

301+ Employees

Commerce Bank, Crowder College, General Mills, Freeman Health System’s Ozark Center and Ozarks Technical Community College

Ranked results will be announced Nov. 16 during a special breakfast event at the Oasis Hotel Convention Center, and honorees will be featured in a special publication in the Nov. 19 issues of Springfield Business Journal and Joplin Tri-State Business. Tickets to the breakfast are $15 each and are available at sbj.net.