Applications for Lists & Competitions

The Best Companies to Work For in NH

Does your company work hard to retain its best and brightest workers with innovative workplace programs and benefits? Then Business NH Magazine and NH Businesses for Social Responsibility want to hear from you.

We're looking for the best places to work in NH–the businesses whose employees love their jobs, have great benefits, are treated fairly and take pride in the work they do. If this sounds like your company, we invite you to enter "The Best Companies To Work For in NH" competition, which is open to any company with headquarters in NH. It is also open to companies with
headquarters elsewhere but with 100 or more employees in NH or to smaller out-of-state companies that employ the majority (50 percent plus one) of their workforce in NH.

Winners will be profiled in the December issue of Business NH Magazine. The Best Companies to Work For application is available online. Applications are due Sept. 9.

Young Professionals Awards

Business NH Magazine and the Stay Work, Play initiative are launching four new Young Professionals Awards competitions.

The competition is closed. Please join us at the event on November 8 at Red River Theatre in Concord.

In order to remain competitive, NH needs to attract and retain younger talent. There have been several initiatives launched focused on that, from the formation of young professionals groups throughout the state to the University System of NH's 55 Percent Initiative, to a governor's task force on the retention of young people that led to the establishment of the Stay, Work, Play initiative.

To further spotlight this important issue, Business NH Magazine is working with Stay, Work Play, the state's Young Professionals organizations and the NH Department to Resources and Economic Development to launch a new awards program recognizing outstanding young professionals, initiatives to keep them here and the businesses that go the extra mile to recruit and retain them.

There are six Young Professionals Awards. Companies and individuals are invited to apply online, and applying for more than one award is encouraged.

1. The Coolest Companies for Young Professionals will honor one small company, one medium-sized company and one large company, all in NH. 

2. The Young Professional of the Year award honors an outstanding professional 40 years old or younger.

3. The Young Professionals Network Program of the Year will honor an innovative program developed by a young professional group.

4. The Stay, Work, Play Leadership Award will be given to an individual, organization, initiative or program in NH that supports young professionals in NH.

Applications are due by Thursday, August 12. Winners will be featured in the Young Professionals Guide in the November issue of Business NH Magazine and feted at an awards ceremony in November.

The Top 100 Private Companies in NH

Business NH Magazine compiles a list of the top 100 private companies in NH for the September issue. Companies are ranked by annual gross sales. The five companies on the list with the fastest growing sales during the past three years are also profiled in this issue. Business NH Magazine also creates a companies to watch list, consisting of those companies with sales under $10 million but experiencing substantial growth.

The list will be published in the September issue. The deadline to appear in the September list is Friday, June 25. 

To order a current comprehensive list of Top 100 Private Companies in excel format, please call Debby Shillinglaw at 603-626-6354 Ext. 207. 

Click here for an application.

Business and Business Leader of the Year and Decade Awards

Please note in 2010 Business NH Magazine honored the achievements of the Businesses of the Decade and one singular Business Leader of the Decade. Competitors for those awards must have won a Business of the Year or Business Leader of the Year during the years 2001 through 2009. Winners were announced in the May issue of Business NH Magazine, and the celebration for the winners was an evening black tie gala will include dinner, dancing and an awards ceremony, held on Wednesday May 12, 2010 in Manchester.

Please note below many of the previous Business Leaders of the Year.

Check out the 2010 Business of the Decade gala in Manchester.

New Hampshire's most prestigious business awards, the Businesses of the Year and Business Leader of the Year, will resume in 2011 and are presented by Business NH Magazine and the NH Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives. This is an opportunity for NH businesses to celebrate excellence in their companies and honor those who lead them. Companies are honored in eight industry categories:

• Business Services
• Education/Nonprofit
• Financial Services/Insurance
• Health Care
• Manufacturing/Technology
• Real Estate/Construction/Engineering
• Retail/Wholesale
• Tourism/Hospitality

The 2010 winners are:

2010 Business Leader of the Year

Tom Raffio, president and CEO, Northeast Delta Dental

Business Services: Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green

Construction/Engineering/Real Estate: Laconia Area Community Land Trust

Education/Nonprofit: Easter Seals New Hampshire

Financial Services/Insurance: Citizens Bank, New Hampshire

Health Care: Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmou Hitchcock Keene

Hospitality/Tourism: The Common Man Family

Manufacturing/Technology: Stonyfield Farm

Retail/Wholesale: Buxton Oil Company

The Business of the Year and Business Leader of the Year competition will resume in 2011.

The Top 100 Public Companies in NH

For our June issue, Business NH Magazine compiles a list of the top 100 public companies with facilities in NH. New Hampshire-based companies are ranked are ranked by their assets, while subsidiaries are ranked by the number of employees they have working in NH.

Applications for the 2010 list are closed. The list is published in our June issue.

To order a current comprehensive list of Top 100 Public Companies in excel format, please call Debby Shillinglaw at 603-626-6354 Ext. 207.

Lean and Green

Business NH Magazine is seeking to spotlight the best environmental practices NH companies have undertaken to be more environmentally sound and cost-efficient. Winners will be featured in the 2010 Green Guide, appearing in the August issue. A celebration of the winners will also take place in September.

If your company has innovative environmental practices, used green building practices in your facility or developed products that help companies become more environmentally-friendly and fiscally sound, then let us know about it! You could be among the companies selected to receive statewide recognition for your eco-efforts. Process awards will be given in three categories: micro companies (businesses with under 50 employees), small companies (businesses with up to 50 employees), medium companies (businesses with between 51 to 125 employees) and large companies (businesses with more than 126 employees).

The 2010 application is now closed. Check back at the end of March 2011. 2010 winners will be announced in the August edition of Business NH magazine.