LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11 /CSRwire/ - For the third consecutive year, California's largest commercial carpet manufacturer Bentley Prince Street, Inc. has been named one of the 2009 Best Places to Work in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

In honoring Los Angeles' best employers, the Los Angeles Business Journal ranked Bentley Prince Street as the second "Best Place to Work" among large employers (250 employees or more) in Los Angeles County. The award identifies, recognizes and honors Los Angeles County's best employers, benefiting the region's economy, its workforce and businesses.

"At Bentley Prince Street, our culture is built on engagement with our associates and customers. Our organization is successful because of the individual and unique strengths of each of our associates as we share a common goal to make our company the best it can be," said Anthony Minite, president of Bentley Prince Street. "This honor is a recognition of each Bentley Prince Street associate, and the enthusiasm, commitment and belief all of us have in who we are and what we can achieve together."

In receiving this honor, Bentley Prince Street was chosen from companies across Los Angeles County in every industry in the Los Angeles Business Journal's third annual list of top workplaces. The process included a rigorous analysis of every area of Bentley Prince Street's business, collecting detailed data through an Infrastructure and Practices Inventory employer questionnaire that evaluated policies, practices, philosophies, systems and demographics. The evaluation also included an Insight Employee Survey conducted among 250 randomly selected associates to measure their employee experience.

For more information on the Best Places to Work in LA program, visit www.BestPlacestoWorkLA.com

About Bentley Prince Street
Defining style, color, quality and service for 30 years, Bentley Prince Street manufactures and markets award-winning broadloom and carpet tile products for commercial interiors across the globe. Bentley Prince Street is committed to sustainable commerce and innovations to integrate style and function with environmental practices through its Mission Zero(TM) goal of eliminating any negative impact it has on the environment by the year 2020. With the industry's most comprehensive vertical carpet manufacturing facility, the company maintains third-party certification to the ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System and the ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System. Based in Los Angeles County, California, Bentley Prince Street is a subsidiary of Interface, Inc., a global provider of floorcoverings. For more information, please visit www.bentleyprincestreet.com

Interface, Inc.

Interface, Inc.

Interface, Inc. is the world’s largest manufacturer of modular carpet, which it markets under the InterfaceFLOR, FLOR, and Bentley Prince Street brands. Bentley Prince Street also is a leader in the designer-quality broadloom carpet market. In the mid-1990s, Interface’s Chairman and CEO Ray C. Anderson shifted the company’s strategy, aiming to redesign its industrial practices to instead focus on sustainability without sacrificing its business goals. Interface is committed to doing business in ways that minimize the impact on the environment. Interface companies have adopted an aggressive vision - To be the first company that, by its deeds, shows the entire industrial world what sustainability is, in all its dimensions: People, process, product, place and profits — by 2020 — and in doing so, to become restorative through the power of influence. In respecting that vision, every creative, manufacturing and building decision Interface makes, moves it closer to the goal of eliminating any negative impact Interface companies have on the environment.

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