NJBIA honored nine companies for their excellent work in creating jobs, protecting the environment, being outstanding employers and serving their communities at NJBIA’s 2008 Awards for Excellence Dinner. The dinner was held November 5 in Edison.

“Tonight’s winners are doing extraordinary things that don’t always get the attention they deserve,” NJBIA President Philip Kirschner told a crowd of 200. “Your stories deserve to be told, and tonight we will tell them.”

The Job Creation winner, recognized for outstanding growth, is:

• PTC Therapeutics, Inc.

The Environmental Quality award winners, recognized for improving the environment, are:

• Hackensack University Medical Center
• Pictorial Offset Corporation

The Outstanding Employer award winners, recognized for superior performance in working with their employees, are:

• J. H. Cohn LLP
• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway
• The Francis E. Parker Memorial Home

The Public Service award winners, recognized for community service, are:

• Harrah’s Entertainment
• Honeywell International
• Tilcon New Jersey

The New Jersey Business & Industry Association Thanks its
2008 Awards for Excellence Sponsors

• Gold Sponsors
  Constellation NewEnergy
  Covanta Energy Corporation
  Entwistle & Cappucci LLP
  Honeywell
  New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company & NJM Bank
  Pictorial Offset Corp.
  PTC Therapeutics Inc.
  Robert Wood Johnson Health System
  Sovereign Bank
  The Port Authority of NY & NJ
  Tilcon New Jersey

• Silver Sponsors
  Apex Technology Group, Inc.
  Jersey Central Power & Light Co., a First Energy Company
  Johnson & Johnson
  Lowenstein Sandler PC
  Merck & Co., Inc.
  NJ Economic Development Authority

• Bronze Sponsor
  Langan Engineering & Environmental Services

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