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1 No. 1Sall Copany No. 1Mid-sied Copany No. 1Lage Copany Eployees Eployees 5-plus Eployees INSIDE: A coplete list and details of ou 217 Best Places to Wok in inois copanies Maketing Patnes Pesenting Sponsos

Awads Ceeony You ae ashining exaple to the wold that thee isnodownside to focusing on the eployee expeience, only an upside.

All thee wee naed the Nube 1Best Place to Wok in inois fo thei espective categoies fo asecond yea in aow.

All thee copanies wee also the top copanies naed in 216. The thee wee aong 76 copanies fo the city, sububs and thoughout the state to eceive the Best Places to Wok in inois hono.

Advocacy PHOTOS BY BEV HORNE/bhone@dailyheald.co Pete Buke, of Best Copanies Goup, gives atalk at the Best Places to Wok in inois ceeony at Abbington Banquets in Glen Ellyn. Sweet epeat fo No.

2 Awads Ceeony You ae ashining exaple to the wold that thee isnodownside to focusing on the eployee expeience, only an upside. 3 By Richad Klicki Diecto of Content Developent What do a popula toyake, a constuction copany and aloop law fi have in coon? All thee wee naed the Nube 1Best Place to Wok in inois fo thei espective categoies fo asecond yea in aow. Chicago-based Radio Flye, Skende Constuction and Sheppad Mullin Richte &Hapton LLP wee naed top copanies fo 217 at an awads ceeony at Abbington Distinctive Banquets in Glen Ellyn. All thee copanies wee also the top copanies naed in 216. The thee wee aong 76 copanies fo the city, sububs and thoughout the state to eceive the Best Places to Wok in inois hono. The poga, now in its 11th yea, is hosted by the Daily Heald Business Ledge in patneship with the Huan Resouces Manageent Association of Chicago, the inois State Chabe of Coece and the Sall Business Advocacy PHOTOS BY BEV HORNE/bhone@dailyheald.co Pete Buke, of Best Copanies Goup, gives atalk at the Best Places to Wok in inois ceeony at Abbington Banquets in Glen Ellyn. Sweet epeat fo No. 1copanies Radio Flye, Skende, Sheppad Mullin again top ou list Radio Flye s Taylo Neies, left, Skende Constuction s Lisa Latonico, cente, and Betsy Zukley with Sheppad Mullin, ight, accept the No. 1awad in thei espective categoies at the 217 Best Places to Wok in inois ceeony. Council and MRA TheManageent Association. The two-pat selection pocess, anaged by Best Copanies Goup of Haisbug, Pennsylvania, involves an evaluation of a noinated copany s wokplace policies, pactices and deogaphics, as well as an eployee suvey to easue the eployee expeience. Best Copanies Goup anaged the egistation and suvey pocess, analyed the data and used thei expetise to deteine the final ankings. Pete Buke, of the Best Copanies Goup, noted the eployee engageent aong the copanies awaded this yea aveaged 91 pecent, copaed to a national aveage of 41 pecent. You ae ashining exaple to the wold that thee is no downside to focusing on the eployee expeience, only an upside, Buke said. You hie SeeBEST on PAGE BEST PLACES TO WORK IN ILLINOIS MONDAY, JUNE 26, 217

AWARDS CEREMONY continued fo PAGE 3 11 who fit into you outine, you coe ission and you values." Radio Flye eceived the top hono in the sall copanies categoy, between 15-99 eployees.

3 AWARDS CEREMONY continued fo PAGE 3 11 who fit into you outine, you coe ission and you values." Radio Flye eceived the top hono in the sall copanies categoy, between eployees. Celebating its 1th yea of business, Radio Flye is coitted to building safe, quality poducts that spak iagination and inspie active play. Thei poducts can be found in all ajo toy etailes including Wal-Mat, Toys "R" Us, Taget and Aaon.co. "It's an hono to be ecognied along with all of you fo ou shaed values and alignent of building envionents whee people can thive," said Radio Flye Huan Resouces Manage Taylo Neies in accepting the awad. It is the thid staight Nube 1 hono fo Skende Constuction in the id-sied categoy, between eployees. In addition to teating clients like gold, they do the sae fo thei eployees by offeing cateed eployees. In addition to teating clients like gold, they do the sae fo thei eployees by offeing cateed Monday lunches and weekly healthy and oganic deliveed goceies, along with fun outings like paintball and cooking classes. Skende's Lisa Latonico gave cedit to the copany's People and Cultue tea fo developing the wok envionent. "They ake all of this possible helping to keep ou eployees engaged, helping to ceate wondeful pogas that ade people want to coe to wok evey day," Latonico said. Nube 1 copany in the lage copany categoy, with oe than 5 eployees, was Sheppad Mullin Richte & Hapton, a full sevice global 1 law fi with oe than 76 attoneys. The fi handles copoate and technological attes, high stakes litigations and coplex financial tansaction and offes onthly paid public tanspotation to thei eployees, along with longevity and pofit-shaing bonuses, 1 pecent paid edical peiu, on-site fitness cente and pesonal developent & stess anageent wokshops. "We have a teific cultue," said Sheppad Mullin Office Adinistato Betsy Zukley. "But, aside fo being a fun place to wok, it's a place that sets you up to succeed." Pofiles of the top copanies will appea in the June 26 issue of the Daily Heald Business Ledge and online at dhbusinessledge.co. Pesenting sponsos of this yea's awads event ae B. Gunthe & Co., Focus Capital Advisos, Ryan LLC, Shake Recuitent Advetising and Counications and the Nothen inois Univesity Gaduate School of Business. II)... "" -I "D -I =E JJ :,;; li':: )> c... C I\) Ol I\)

Sall Copanies 19-99 eployees 5 #1: Radio Flye Inc., Chicago When Antonio Pasin stated Radio Flye in 1917, his dea was to bing joy to evey boy &evey gil.

They ae coitted to building safe, quality poducts that spak iagination and inspie active play.

tes, and othe ide-ons, thei poducts can be found in all ajo toy etailes including Wal-Mat, Toys R Us, Taget and Aaon.co.

4 Sall Copanies eployees 5 #1: Radio Flye Inc., Chicago When Antonio Pasin stated Radio Flye in 1917, his dea was to bing joy to evey boy &evey gil. Today, they continue thei dedication to binging siles to childen and failies aound the wold & to ceate eoies that last a lifetie though thei poduct offeing. They ae coitted to building safe, quality poducts that spak iagination and inspie active play. Fo wellknown wagons to ou ticycles, scootes, and othe ide-ons, thei poducts can be found in all ajo toy etailes including Wal-Mat, Toys R Us, Taget and Aaon.co. As aband that consues gew up with, they ae poud to continue to be pat of gowing failies and dedicate ouselves to binging siles to childen and pooting active play. It is the thid consecutive yea in fist place fo Radio Flye. Q; What akes woking at you copany so special? A: We ae poud to be celebating ou 1th annivesay. Radio Flye holds a special place in failies heats. Ou band was built on love and ou ission is to bing siles to kids of all ages and to ceate wa eoies that last a lifetie. Thee ae not any bands that have been a delightful pat of people s childhood fo geneations. Ou Flyes undestand that this is unique and that the poducts we design fuel iaginations. This is inspiing and it also coes with a sense of esponsibility. Ou Flyes ae otivated to continue the legacy ceated by those that went befoe the fo a centuy. Q: What ae one o two specific things you copany does to poote eployee engageent? A: All Flyes undestand thei diect ipact on the success of the business. They know that what they do attes because we talk about it and we easue it. Flyes design thei own jobs though ou goals pocess. Annually they have the oppotunity to shape and wite thei goals fo the yea. We hie top designes and top talent. We hie Flyes who ae both skilled Radio Flye Inc W. Gand Ave. Chicago, IL 677 (773) Industy: Consue poducts Top local official: Robet Pasin, Chief Wagon Office Nube of Eployees: 7 and passionate about the wok we need the to do in the ole. Agoup of highly talented, innovative, passionate people woking togethe pootes an envionent of engageent. I beg candidates not to take ajob with Radio Flye unless they feel it will be the best job they ve eve had. Engageent stats with coitent. We also have alot of fun togethe celebating ou successes and building elationships though paties, events, elay aces, volunteeing and wellness challenges. The fun tanslates into collaboation and ceativity on the job. Q: Who ae you ole odels? How do they play into you philosophy? A: I have leaned a lot fo y gandfathe (Antonio Pasin) and y fathe (Maio Pasin). My gandfathe s handshake was his wod and people that inteacted with hi knew this. My fathe conducted hiself in the sae way and Live With Integity is one of ou coe values at Radio Flye today. Though thei actions they also taught e the ipotance of teating all people well. Both y fathe and y gandfathe always teated eveyone they et with espect and kindness. They did not change thei behavio based on the peson egadless of status, backgound, o situation. They neve talked to e about how to teat people well, they just did it though thei actions and this shaped e. This inspied the Little Red Rule, evey tie we touch people s lives, they will feel geat about Radio Flye. This guides ou inteactions both intenally and extenally at Radio Flye. Q: Does you wokplace cultue extend into the counity? How? A: Ou vision is to be the wold s ost loved childen s band. We have Flyes who ae passionate about suppoting ou counity, envionent, and childen. Flyes eceive two (2) paid days off to voluntee. We have an eployee lead coittee called the SMILE Squad that plans local events whee Flyes can voluntee at places like the Geate Chicago Food Depositoy and Theapy Oiented Ticycles. The SMILE Squad led ou eight (8) Kaboo! Playgound builds in the Chicago aea fo schools and counities in need of asafe outdoo space fo childen to play. We have also patneed with Stalight Childen s Foundation fo ove adecade to povide wagons that ae etofitted and used in the hospital to tanspot childen in lieu of a wheelchai o hospital bed to bing siles in challenging situations. We also have an EcoFlye coittee that leads ou ecycling effots and the Little Geen Gaden. Radio Flye is a LEED Platinu cetified building. We epuposed ou existing waehouse space installed geotheal heating and cooling, use natual light and othe geen design solutions such as cistens to stoe stowate etention fo ou gaden. Q: How has being the Nube 1Best Place to Wok in inois helped you as acopany? A: It has helped us to attact top talent! As pat of the application pocess, all Flyes paticipate in the suvey pocess. The eployee engageent suvey esults help us to identify ways that we can patne with ou Flyes to continuously get bette. 217 BEST PLACES TO WORK IN ILLINOIS MONDAY, JUNE 26, 217

5 6 Sall Copanies eployees Ranking COMPANY Addess Phone Website Top Local Executive Title Total No. of U.S. Eployees Industy 1 RADIO FLYER INC W. Gand Ave., Chicago, IL, Robet Pasin 7 consue poducts 2 THE STEELY GROUP 1211 W. 22nd St., Suite 33, Oak Book, IL, Julie Heneghan founde/ 18 staffing 3 THE SALEM GROUP 2TansA Plaa Dive, Ste. 17, Oakbook Teace, IL, Doi Loen 26 staffing 4 BALASA DINVERNO FOLTZ LLC 5 Pak Blvd., Suite 14, Itasca, IL, bdfllc.co Aond A. Dinveno /co- 53 financial sevices 217 BEST PLACES TO WORK IN ILLINOIS 5 DRAGONSPEARS 1 S. Riveside Plaa, Suite 152, Chicago, IL, SYNERGY BUILDERS, INC. 85 Meadowview Cossing, Suite 13, West Chicago, IL, FUSION OEM 6951 High Gove Blvd., Bu Ridge, IL, TRANSTECH IT STAFFING 248 Sping Lake Dive, Itasca, IL, MOTHERG 248 Sping Lake Dive, Itasca, IL, OPTIMAL DESIGN CO. 61 W. Capus Dive, Suite B3, Alington Heights, IL, MUELLER 177 N. Randall Road, Suite 2, Elgin, IL, MERIT SOLUTIONS INC S. Napeville Road, Suite 2, Wheaton, IL, RESOURCE BROKERAGE 151 E. Woodfield Road, Suite 11E, Schaubug, IL, Patick Eons John Habeeie Caig Zobeis May K. Davenpot / Dave Davenpot Sajid Patel David J. Nissen anaging patne Bill Buke Blai Fawell 15 technology 2 constuction 47 anufactuing 28 staffing 23 technology 3 poduct developent 83 accounting 4 consulting 25 healthcae -insuance/sevices 14 KRD-KUTCHINS, ROBBINS &DIAMOND, LTD. 111 Peiete Dive, Suite 76, Schaubug, IL, Allen Kutchins patne 58 accounting 15 COMMERCIAL PACKAGING 1Pape Chase St., Noal, IL, Janette Egbes /chaiwoan/owne 48 distibution 16 STRATEX 444 N. Michigan Ave., 28th floo, Chicago, IL, Ada M. Ochstein founde/ 73 HR sevices 17 GRID CONNECT INC. 163 W. Diehl Road, Napeville, IL, gidconnect.co Mike Justice 28 technology MONDAY, JUNE 26, TIGER PLUMBING, HEATING, AIR CONDITIONING &ELECTRICAL SERVICES INC. 192 Vandalia St., Suite 1, Collinsville, IL, ADAGE TECHNOLOGIES 1 S. Riveside Plaa, Suite 15, Chicago, IL, SYSTEMAX 451 Alex Blvd., Suite A, Spingfield, IL, POINTS, LLC 11 Joie Blvd., Suite 1, Oak Book, IL, Abe Jackson aketing and social edia associate Roy Choko Bett Jackson Steve Banke 68 sevice 51 technology 41 advetising/public elations/aketing 36 technology Continued on Page 7

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