Outstanding

Last season was a crazy and unpredictable winter, and as a result we received a record number of submissions for this year’s Top 100 list.

Here’s a little background on how we collect the Top 100 data.

This year, as early as mid-March, notices going out to last year’s Top 100 companies to begin compiling their total winter revenue and to head to our online form to submit their numbers. At the same time, we broadcast to the rest of the snow community to total and submit their winter revenue figures.

This process remained open until the end of June. At the conclusion of the submission process the numbers were tallied and ranked. And for those companies reporting identical revenue figures they shared the higher ranking. In addition, after much debate, we made the decision, going forward, to NOT include companies’ winter-revenue figures. Those figures will remain internal and used for the sole purpose of ranking submitting companies. However, to provide a sense of scale to this year’s list, it is safe to say that No. 100 reported in excess of $1 million in winter revenue.

Top 100 companies were honored during an awards ceremony at this year’s Executive Summit in Pittsburgh. In addition, since an immense amount of focus is being given to the role company culture plays on an operation’s overall success, we asked a number of the Top 100 companies to define their culture and how it contributes to their success.

– Mike Zawacki, editor