New York’s Most Outstanding Employers Featured in December 5th Issue;
The North Highland Company Named Best Place to Work

New York, NY – December 5, 2011 – Crain’s New York Business today announced the winners of the “Best Places to Work in New York City 2011” competition. These companies represent a diverse range of industries including technology, marketing and public relations, engineering, finance, hospitality and law. A ranking of the top 50 businesses appears in the December 5th edition of Crain’s. The North Highland Company, a consulting firm, took the coveted first place.

Winners were chosen based on the results of a weighted survey of both employees and employers conducted by Crain’s New York Business in partnership with Best Companies Group.  It is the fourth consecutive year Crain’s has conducted this research to determine the most desirable companies to work for in New York City.

“The 50 companies that make up Crain’s ‘Best Places to Work in New York City’ represent the top employers throughout the five boroughs and explain why the best and brightest from all over the country consistently choose to make our city the place where they live and work,” said Xana Antunes, editor of Crain’s New York Business. “This distinguished group of winners can take pride in the fact that it was the praise and support of their own employees that earned them this honor in the nation’s most competitive business market.”

In addition to a ranking of the top 50 companies, the December 5th issue of Crain’s also lists the top companies in three categories, according to company size: Small companies, with up to 149 employees; mid-sized companies, with 150 to 499 employees; and large companies, with 500 or more employees.

A sample of 2011 winners includes Mr. Youth, 360i, NetApp, Inc., Bonobos and Silverstein Properties.

The Top 50 Best Places to Work in New York City for 2011 are:

1. The North Highland Company
2. Mr Youth
3. Conductor, Inc.
4. Hunton & Williams LLP
5. interclick, inc.
6. NetApp
7. Text 100
8. RightsFlow
9. Bingham McCutchen LLP
10. ZocDoc
11. RAND Engineering & Architecture, PC
12. 360i
13. Bluewolf
14. Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP
15. Undertone
16. BONOBOS
17. Grassi & Co.
18. Arrow S3
19. firstborn
20. Myriad Supply
21. Signature Bank
22. Eze Castle Integration
23. Aerotek Inc.
24. Animoto
25. Silverstein Properties Inc.
26. ID Media
27. Studley Inc.
28. Vibrant Media, Inc.
29. GolinHarris
30. Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC
31. New York Cares
32. National Futures Association
33. Village Pourhouse
34. Goodwin Procter LLP
35. Gibbons P.C.
36. Hachette Book Group
37. Insperity
38. Telx
39. Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants of New York City
40. appssavvy
41. Rothstein Kass
42. SourceOne, Inc
43. Alston + Bird LLP
44. Friedman LLP
45. Situation Interactive
46. Linedata
47. Wiss & Company, LLP
48. The Execu|Search Group
49. Marcum LLP
50. Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP

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