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TOP WORKPLACES FACTS

50 facts about this year’s Top Workplaces

■ Apollo Grill pioneered the historic nies in the country three years in a row. Charter School has had five graduating
downtown Bethlehem restaurant scene ■ Dun & Bradstreet is a 175-year old classes in a row with 100 percent gradu-
when it opened in 1999. Nearly two company that has seen four presidents ation and college enrollment rates.
decades later, Apollo Grill is one of the with credit reports in the company’s ■ Liquid Interactive’s history dates
Valley’s most popular restaurants. lineage, including Abraham Lincoln, back to the early ’90s when the internet
■ Active Learning Centers works Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley was just getting off the ground. They
hard to put together a balanced team of and Grover Cleveland. built Mack Trucks’ very first website.
caretakers. ■ Fellowship Community is contin- ■ MassMutual Eastern Pennsylvania
■ Aldi carries more than 90 percent ually accredited with a Gold Seal of is one of the largest life insurance com-
exclusive brand products on its store Approval and Post-Acute Care Certifi- panies globally and was ranked 94th in
shelves. cation by the Joint Commission for the Fortune 500 list (as of 2015).
■ Allentown Rescue Mission offers quality care and outstanding patient ■ Moravian College is the nation’s
over 100 beds, including 66 emergency safety. sixth oldest college. It was the first
shelter beds, across four buildings. ■ Fitzpatrick Lentz & Bubba P.C. is school in the country to focus education
They also offer meals, clean clothing, one of the 100 largest law firms in the on women.
chapel services, medical attention and state, and is consistently recognized ■ Mortgage America Inc. is a locally
community resources. among Pennsylvania’s best firms for family-owned and operated mortgage
■ ATAS International Inc. – hiring and retaining female attorneys. company founded by brothers Bob and
BRIGHTSMITH Coaters celebrated ■ HindlePower Inc. has a recognition Dan Barrett over 35 years ago.
“marching forth” on March 4 to pro- program where employees nominate ■ Norris, McLaughlin & Marcus
mote staff goal setting and successes. fellow employees for good work or just P.A. has been around the Lehigh Valley
■ Barry Isett & Associates first op- being a kind person. for 100 years. They strive to be a lead-
erated from a rented second floor office ■ Historic Hotel Bethlehem boasts a ing member of the great community in
in an 1860s farmhouse. long list of famous former guests, in- which they live, work and play.
■ Bennett Automotive Group has cluding Henry Ford, Sir Winston ■ OraSure Technologies Inc. is
won many area awards, including Read- Churchill and Thomas Edison. bringing to market several “first-of-its- HARRY FISHER/THE MORNING CALL
ers’ Choice, Top Workplaces, Business ■ Howard Hanna The Frederick kind” products, including the first in- Head cook Cathy Schlosser replenishes pizza
of the Year nominee, Best Foreign Group may be the only real estate home rapid HIV test and the first OTC during the lunch hour inside the Parkland High
School cafeteria.
Dealer, the Award of Excellence, the company with its own resale division, point-of-care infectious test approved
President’s Award and Dealer of the commercial division, new construction by the FDA.
Year. and land development division, busi- ■ Parkland School District serves ple could make a reservation to spend a
■ Buckeye Partners L.P. became an ness sales division and appraisal divi- North Whitehall Township, South night in Allentown. Civil War soldiers
independently publicly owned company sion. Whitehall Township, Upper Macungie once stayed at the building, then known
after Standard Oil’s dissolution in 1911. ■ Ideal Concepts Inc. excelled during Township, and part of western Allen- as the Eagle Hotel.
■ Buckno Lisicky & Co. PC’s two a time when many other insurance town. ■ Salisbury Township School Dis-
founding partners are still active within marketing groups actually got out of the ■ Paxos Restaurants is owned by trict was ranked 89th of 489 Pennsyl-
the firm, which was formed in 1969. industry. local entrepreneur George Paxos, who vania school districts in 2013 by the
■ Cintas Corp. is proud to be recog- ■ Intelliquip LLC has over 120 years also owns and operates Paxos Homes, a Pittsburgh Business Times.
nized for their partners’ attention to of experience using artificial intelli- developing townhome community in ■ Scott Cars Inc. was founded in
customer service and cultural commit- gence, specifically expert systems. Whitehall, and Primo Produce, a pro- 1969 and employs over 140 Lehigh
ment to excellence. ■ Jerdon Construction Services duce supply company in Allentown. Valley residents.
■ Ciocca Subaru’s Eco-Friendly LLC was selected by Lehigh Valley ■ Paychex Inc. has HR solutions to fit ■ Service Access & Management
Retailer Program demonstrates the core Business as one of the Top 10 Fastest the needs of any size business. Inc.com Inc. just celebrated its 20th anniversary.
values of Subaru as a company and a Growing Companies in the Valley for evaluated 10 human resource providers ■ Stitch Fix customers fill out a “style
brand by positively impacting the com- 2014, 2015 and 2016. and named Paychex the overall best HR profile” online, which helps Stitch Fix
munity and local environment. ■ Jim Thorpe Neighborhood Bank outsourcing solution for small business. understand the person’s size, style,
■ Community Services for Children was formed in 1955, a year after the ■ Penn Treaty Network America shape, budget and lifestyle. From there,
had more than 4,700 children receive a neighboring towns of Mauch Chunk holds various events throughout the the company’s algorithm takes that
subsidy for child care last year, and had and East Mauch Chunk merged. year including a picnic, holiday lunch- information and suggests items the
more than 30,000 children served at ■ King, Spry, Herman, Freund & eon, teambuilding events, cook-offs & person would like. Finally, a stylist
703 STAR sites. Faul LLC is unusual in that it operates bake-offs and an ice cream truck. takes over, selecting five items for the
■ Computer Aid Inc. is proud to say a nonprofit training institute (Greyfri- ■ Pinebrook Family Answers’ goal is customer.
that 38 percent of CAI associates are ars) for the purposes of professional to help all types of families become ■ Trifecta Technologies Inc. is a
directly involved in CAI Cares pro- development. healthy and flourish by providing serv- trusted partner for some of the most
grams, including initiatives such as ■ Kitchen Magic Inc. has a gnome in ices and programs to overcome chal- widely recognized and successful com-
adopting families in need for the holi- their logo because gnomes are known lenges and succeed in daily living. panies in the world, including Walt
days. as hardworking craftsmen. ■ Presbyterian Senior Living origi- Disney Resorts, Pfizer, Glaxo Smith
■ D’Huy Engineering’s structural ■ Krause Toyota is the oldest Toyota nated in 1927 when Mrs. Ellen Parker Kline, and Starwood Resorts and Ho-
group has completed over 100 brown- dealership in the country, and on the donated her farmhouse near Newville, tels.
stone renovations in the New York City fourth generation of owners. Pa. Today, the organization includes ■ Uline Shipping Supplies is a lead-
metro area. ■ Lehigh Valley Center for Inde- volunteers donating over 100,000 hours ing distributor of shipping, industrial
■ Dream Live Prosper was named the pendent Living serves more than 1,000 per year of their time. and packaging materials to businesses
No. 8 real estate team in the nation by people with disabilities and their fam- ■ Renaissance Allentown, when throughout North America.
the Wall Street Journal, and named one ilies each year. opened in 2015, became the first place ■ Yocco’s Inc. has been serving hot
of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing compa- ■ Lincoln Leadership Academy in more than three decades where peo- dogs in the Valley since 1922.

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