100 Best Companies to Work For 2008

Top 50 employers

We surveyed nearly 100,000 employees from 406 different companies and asked them to evaluate their employers. These firms ranked the highest.

By Robert Levering and Milton Moskowitz

Stew Leonard's

26 of 50

Stew Leonard's

Best Companies rank: 26
2006 Revenues (millions): $311
Headquarters: Norwalk, CT

What makes it so great? Known for its rah-rah culture, this supermarket chain opened its fourth store in Newington, Conn., creating 430 new jobs (85% of managers were hired in-house).

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