This Maine Company Is One of the Best Places to Work in the U.S.

We all like to think that we work for the best companies, but this Maine company, in particular, is receiving nationwide praise.

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Each year, Forbes, the business media publication, releases its list of 'America’s Best Large Employers,' providing a yearly snapshot of the best companies to work for in the country at that point. This is done annually to track trends and assess whether a company is moving in the right direction, taking the correct steps, or falling backward and not taking care of its employees as well as it should.

This annual ranking, described by Forbes and produced in partnership with Statista, a market research firm, is the result of a survey of employees at U.S. companies with more than 5,000 workers. Survey respondents were asked to 'rate their employer' and indicate if they 'would recommend their employer to others.'

Forbes describes their methodology as follows:

Responses were given by current employees, employees who had worked for the company within the past two years, and individuals familiar with the company through friends, family or peers in their industry. Greater weight was given to evaluations from current employees and former employees. New to the methodology this year was the inclusion of data from the past three years—with more recent data weighted more heavily—to better identify companies that have been rated well consistently over time.

Out of the 600 companies listed by Forbes, one comes from our Pine Tree State.

Ranked at #464, IDEXX Laboratories in Westbrook is the sole Maine company on the list.

The Health Care Equipment & Services company was founded in December 1983 by David Evans Shaw in Westbrook. Forbes describes IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. as follows:

IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and distribution of products and services for the animal veterinary, livestock and poultry, dairy and water testing markets. It operates through the following segments: CAG, Water, LPD, and Other. The CAG segment develops, designs, manufactures, and distributes products and performs services for veterinarians and the biomedical analytics market, primarily related to diagnostics and information management. The Water segment develops, designs, manufactures, and distributes a range of products used in the detection of various microbiological parameters in water. The LPD segment develops, designs, manufactures, and distributes diagnostic tests and related instrumentation and performs services, which are used to manage the health status of livestock and poultry, to improve producer, and to ensure the quality and safety of milk and food. The Other operating segment combines and presents products for the human point-of-care medical diagnostics market with its out-licensing arrangements.