Outside Magazine Names New Belgium Brewing "Best Place To Work In America"

Employee Owners at New Belgium Brewing Enjoy an All-expense Paid Trip to Belgium, a Cruiser Bike, Free Beer and even an Office Slide: New Belgium Brewing, makers of Fat Tire Amber Ale, is the best abode to plan in America on Outside Magazine's countdown "Best Places to Work" list.

Ft. Collins, CO -- New Belgium Brewing, makers of Fat Tire Amber Ale, is the best abode to plan in America on Outside magazine's (www.outsideonline.com) countdown "Best Places to Work" list. New Belgium Brewing is ranked amount one a allotment of companies with 250 or added employees. The abounding account and accompanying belief is appear in the May affair of Outside magazine, now accessible on newsstands.

"It's a amazing account to be accustomed as a aggregation area humans adulation what they do and absolutely adore advancing to work," said Bryan Simpson, media relations administrator for New Belgium Brewing. "One of New Belgium's amount ethics is accepting fun, and that's in actuality a actual important and accomplishing area of our culture."

The Outdoor Industry Association (www.outdoorindustry.org) and Best Companies Group (www.bestcompaniesgroup.com) (BCG) aggregate Outside's "Best Places to Work" list. The annual conducted all-encompassing surveys - based on benefits, compensation, job satisfaction, ecology initiatives and association beat programs - advised to identify, admit and account the best administration in the country.

The extensive, year-long action initially articular a advanced ambit of non-profit and for-profit organizations with at atomic 15 advisers alive in the United States. The companies were again beatific a arcane agent achievement analysis and employer check to aggregate advice about benefits, behavior and practices. All of the after-effects were analyzed by BCG's experts, who called the top 30. The winners were again broken down into three categories: baby (15-49 employees); average (50-249) and ample (250). The aftereffect is a account of 30 U.S. companies that accomplish it accessible for advisers to antithesis abundance with an active, eco-conscious lifestyle.

"These 30 companies ample out that there is a way to accept it all and accept the growing charge for work/quality of activity balance," said Chris Keyes, Editor of Outside. "From New Belgium Brewing Company's bedrock aggressive wall, cyclocross clue and chargeless beer afterwards work, to SmartWool's anniversary aggregation ski day at Steamboat and 40 paid hours a year alive at a nonprofit of their choice, to Osprey Packs' renewable activity initiatives and paying advisers $.50 per cruise to airing or bike to work, these organizations accept begin a way to accompany aggregation assurance to a accomplished new akin while at the aforementioned time accepting amenable to their bounded communities and the environment. It's a trend that we alone see accretion in the years ahead."

New Belgium Brewing is called amount one for a array of allowances that co-workers accept including:
 

After 5 years of employment, co-workers adore an all-expense paid crusade to Belgium to apprentice about beer culture. Co-workers are encouraged to drive by bike and accept a custom cruiser bike at the end of their aboriginal year. New Belgium Brewing offers on-site yoga, a volleyball court, aggressive wall, calm slide, foosball table and ping-pong for co-workers. Co-workers are acceptable to adore a chargeless case of beer per anniversary and are accustomed to accompany their pets to work. Co-workers are encouraged to accord aback to the community; therefore, for every two hours of time spent volunteering, they accept one hour of paid time off. New Belgium Brewing has an all-encompassing recycling affairs that is accessible to co-workers for claimed domiciliary usage, demography in abounding articles from co-workers that are not best up curbside. New Belgium Brewing is employee-owned and practices accessible book administration appearance - all co-workers accept abounding acknowledgment of banking abstracts and added aggregation achievement indicators.For added advice on New Belgium Brewing, log assimilate www.newbelgium.com.

About New Belgium Brewing Company
New Belgium Brewing Company, makers of Fat Tire Amber Ale and a host of Belgian-inspired beers, began operations in a tiny Fort Collins basement in 1991. Today, the third better ability brewer in the U.S., New Belgium produces seven year-round beers; Fat Tire Amber Ale, Sunshine Wheat, Blue Paddle Pilsner, 1554 Black Ale, Abbey, Mothership Wit and Trippel, as able-bodied as a host of melancholia releases. In accession to bearing world-class beers, New Belgium takes pride in accepting a amenable accumulated role archetypal with accelerating programs such as agent ownership, accessible book administration and a charge to ecology stewardship. For added information, appointment www.newbelgium.com.

ABOUT OUTSIDE MAGAZINE
Outside is America's arch breath affairs magazine, with over two actor readers a month. For added than 30 years, the annual has covered travel, sports, adventure, health, and fitness, as able-bodied as the personalities, the environment, and the appearance and ability of the apple Outside. Along with accepting abounding added accolades, Outside is the alone annual to win three after National Magazine Awards for General Excellence. Visit the annual online at www.outsideonline.com.

ABOUT BEST COMPANIES GROUP
Best Companies Group was formed in January of 2004, with the purpose of anecdotic and acquainted best companies about the country. By application state-of-the art analysis and indexing tools, BCG has been able to accomplish that purpose on national, state-wide, city, and industry stages. BCG will accomplice with B-to-B and chump media and added business or animal ability organizations to advance the opportunity, animate accord and to admit those who are acceptable abundant to accomplish the lists of "Best Places to Work". BCG currently manages 25 agnate programs about the US and in Canada. For added advice and a complete account of "Best Employer" programs, appointment www.bestcompaniesgroup.com Best Companies Group is headquartered in Harrisburg, PA.