Greater St. Louis Top 50 Awards Gala Salutes Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Express Scripts, and 2005 Top 50 on Tuesday Evening, December 13

December 9, 2005

For more information, contact
Gary Broome at 444-1171

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:


ST. LOUIS – The St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association (RCGA) and Deloitte & Touche USA will present the 2005 Greater St. Louis Top 50 Awards Gala on Tuesday evening, December 13, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at Union Station, beginning at 6 p.m.

The Spirit of St. Louis Technology Award will be presented to Express Scripts, Inc. in recognition of its commitment to both technology and the St. Louis region.  Also, Boeing is inaugurating The Boeing Corporate Citizenship Award, a new annual award saluting a company that exemplifies the highest corporate standards and citizenship.  Enterprise Rent-A-Car will receive this inaugural award for its commitment to the region.

Growth in the number of employees; revenue growth; acquisitions and expansion of facilities; and their overall contributions to the St. Louis regional economy were the criteria used to select the 50 St. Louis-based companies, which are:

Advantage Capital Partners
Ameren Corporation
Ameristar Casino St. Charles, Inc.
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Arch Coal, Inc.
Arcturis
Asynchrony Solutions, Inc.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri
Build-A-Bear Workshop
Centene Corporation
Chemir Analytical Services
CI Select
CitiMortgage, Inc.
Clayco, Inc.
Colliers Turley Martin Tucker
Commerce Bank
Divergence, Inc.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Express Scripts, Inc.
GKN Aerospace – St. Louis
Graybar Electric Company, Inc.
Innoventor, Inc.
The Korte Company
Kwame Building Group, Inc.
LaBarge, Inc.
The Lawrence Group, Inc.
LINCO Research, Inc.
Mallinckrodt/Tyco Healthcare
Maritz Inc.
McEagle Properties LLC
Monsanto Company
MonsterCommerce
The Newberry Group, Inc.
NSI (National System, Inc.)
Peabody Energy
Pfizer St. Louis Laboratories
Popular Leasing USA, Inc.
The ROHO Group
Rose International
Saint Louis University
Scottrade, Inc.
Smurfit-Stone Container  
SSM Health Care
TALX Corporation
Tarlton Corporation
TechGuard Security LLC
TheBANK of Edwardsville
TricorBraun
UnitedHealth Group
World Wide Technology, Inc.

In addition to Deloitte, corporate sponsors of the awards program are Edward Jones, Sigma-Aldrich Corp., and Southwest Bank.

About the St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association (RCGA)
The RCGA is the chamber of commerce and economic development organization for the 16-county, bi-state region. The mission of the RCGA is to unite the region’s business community, and to engage dynamic business and civic leadership to develop and sustain a world-class economy and community.