| Rank | Companies |
| 1 | Edward Jones |
| 2 | Container Store |
| 3 | Alston & Bird |
| 4 | Xilinx |
| 5 | Adobe Systems |
| 6 | American Cast Iron Pipe Company |
| 7 | TDIndustries |
| 8 | J.M. Smucker |
| 9 | Synovus Financial |
| 10 | Wegmans Food Markets |
| 11 | Plante & Moran |
| 12 | Pella Corporation |
| 13 | CDW Computer Centers |
| 14 | J.M. Family Enterprises |
| 15 | Baptist Health Care |
| 16 | Vision Service Plan |
| 17 | Republic Bancorp |
| 18 | QUALCOMM |
| 19 | SAS Institute |
| 20 | Microsoft |
| 21 | Pfizer |
| 22 | MBNA |
| 23 | Third Federal Savings and Loan |
| 24 | Cisco Systems |
| 25 | Duncan Aviation |
| 26 | Sterling Bank |
| 27 | W.L. Gore & Associates |
| 28 | Intel Corporation |
| 29 | S.C. Johnson |
| 30 | Stew Leonard's |
| 31 | Merck |
| 32 | Whole Foods Market |
| 33 | Agilent Technologies |
| 34 | Silicon Graphics |
| 35 | Goldman Sachs |
| 36 | American Express |
| 37 | SRA International |
| 38 | IBM |
| 39 | Network Appliance |
| 40 | Alcon Laboratories |
| 41 | QuikTrip |
| 42 | Continental Airlines |
| 43 | AmeriCredit |
| 44 | Bright Horizons |
| 45 | Fannie Mae |
| 46 | Procter & Gamble Company |
| 47 | Starbucks |
| 48 | Four Seasons Hotels |
| 49 | VHA |
| 50 | AFLAC |
| 51 | Harley-Davidson |
| 52 | Autodesk |
| 53 | National Instruments |
| 54 | First Tennessee Bank |
| 55 | Colgate-Palmolive |
| 56 | Valassis Communications |
| 57 | Eli Lilly |
| 58 | International Data Group |
| 59 | Acxiom |
| 60 | Arnold & Porter |
| 61 | Intuit |
| 62 | Timberland |
| 63 | LensCrafters |
| 64 | SEI Investments |
| 65 | Medtronic |
| 66 | Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company |
| 67 | A.G. Edwards & Sons |
| 68 | Ernst & Young |
| 69 | Kimberly-Clark |
| 70 | Valero Energy |
| 71 | Ukrop's Super Markets |
| 72 | Federal Express |
| 73 | REI |
| 74 | Marriott International |
| 75 | MFS Investment Management |
| 76 | Griffin Hospital |
| 77 | Sun Microsystems |
| 78 | Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital |
| 79 | Deloitte & Touche |
| 80 | Genentech |
| 81 | American Century Investments |
| 82 | ARUP Laboratories |
| 83 | Vanguard Group |
| 84 | Baxter International |
| 85 | Baptist Health South Florida |
| 86 | Barton Protective Services |
| 87 | Publix Super Markets |
| 88 | Paychex |
| 89 | MITRE |
| 90 | Charles Schwab |
| 91 | Electronic Arts |
| 92 | Nordstrom |
| 93 | New York Times |
| 94 | Perkins Coie |
| 95 | Texas Instruments |
| 96 | CH2M Hill |
| 97 | Washington Mutual |
| 98 | Welch Allyn |
| 99 | Guidant |
| 100 | Principal Financial |
