Business Tennessee Magazine Names Tennessee's Top 20 "Best Employers"

Nashville, TN - May 10, 2006 - Business Tennessee magazine’s upcoming May 2006 issue identifies and features the Top 20 "Best Employers" to work for in the state of Tennessee. Each year, the Best Companies Group examines Tennessee businesses and evaluates them to determine which ones stand out as the best employers.

The winners are picked based on factors such as salaries, personal benefits, tenure of CEOs and much more. "These twenty companies cover a broad spectrum of the business world—but the one common characteristic that they all possess is the outstanding way they treat their employees," said Chris Stovall, publisher of Business Tennessee magazine. "A company that strives for a positive work environment deserves to be recognized; in addition to the real difference it makes to their bottom-lines and to the retention of their best employees."

The 2006 "Best Employers" in Tennessee as named by Business Tennessee magazine are (in alphabetical order): Beaman Automotive (Nashville), Cowan Benefit Services (Franklin), Edward Jones (state-wide), ENA (Nashville), First Horizon National Corp. (state-wide), Kramer Rayson LLP (Knoxville/Oak Ridge), Lee Company (Franklin), LifeWay Christian Resources (state-wide), McKee Foods Corp. & Affiliates (Chattanooga), Memorial Health Care System (Chattanooga), Mid-America Apartment Communities (state-wide), Midsouth Bank (Murfreesboro/Smyrna), Passport Health Communications (Franklin), Qualifacts Systems (Nashville), Saratoga Technologies (Knoxville/Tri-Cities/Greeneville), Scripps Networks (Knoxville, Nashville), T-Mobile USA (state-wide), UNUM PROVIDENT CORP. (Chattanooga), Valenti Mid-South Management (Memphis), and Walden Security (Chattanooga/Knoxville/Nashville).

Business Tennessee magazine is the leading voice for statewide business, government and political news important to the state's economic success. Each issue engages and informs business leaders in Tennessee through timely and well researched articles that:

• Keep readers current on the state's business climate;
• Spotlight developments on the brink of transforming business;
• Deal head-on with the critical issues shaping the state's economy and the companies that make it tick.

By fulfilling its mission to be intensely useful, educational and entertaining, Business Tennessee is required reading for the state's top decision makers who need to know what's happening, who is behind it and what does it mean for the rest of the state. For more information, please visit www.businesstn.com.

ENA Contact: Monica Farner, ENA Director of Marketing 615-312-6008 mfarner@ena.com

Media Contact: Jackson Vahaly, Business Tennessee magazine 615-843-8000 x 218 vahaly@businesstn.com