Is that Richard Simmons and Olivia Newton-John?

We work hard for our customers, but we also work hard at supporting a creative, fun and dynamic work environment for our employees – such as this Halloween dress-up day (see photo). So we were excited to learn that LendingTree Loans was recently named one of the top places to work in Kentucky: #21 among large-sized companies.

That’s according to the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” initiative, which aims to create new levels of excellence in employee engagement among Kentucky’s employers. 

The top-ranked companies were chosen based on an evaluation of their employee policies and procedures, as well as from the results of an internal employee survey.  LendingTree Loans is the mortgage lending arm of LendingTree that provides competing offers to customers through a single point of contact (and the Louisville, Kentucky office was formerly SurePoint Lending until it became part of LendingTree Loans).

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As we close out Women’s History Month, it’s a good time to take a moment to think about how far women have come in the last several decades in terms of economic power and influence.

Here’s some food for thought:

Women are projected to account for 51.2 percent of the increase in total labor force growth between 2008 and 2018. In 2010, women made up about 47.2% of the total workforce. In 1988 the respective share was about 45%. (Source: US Department of Labor)
In 2009, women earned 89% as much as men among workers 25 to 34 years old. In 1979, women earned about 62% as much as men. (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics )
More women are buying homes. Single female home buyers have grown to 20% in 2010 up from 14% in the 1990s. (Source: NAR, 2010)
Women account for 80 percent of all consumer purchasing decisions (Source: Trendwatching, August 2007)

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LendingTree has its roots in innovation and reinvention: More than ten years ago our CEO Doug Lebda pioneered a way to empower homebuyers by creating an online lending marketplace that matched customers with lenders. But the LendingTree story doesn’t end there. Today’s Wall Street Journal features LendingTree and our CEO as an example of reinvention in an industry hit hard by the housing implosion.

The column by WSJ reporter Dana Mattioli explains how LendingTree, while remaining a leader in the home loan industry, has been branching out to new industry verticals, including health, autos, education, home equity loans and many other topic areas that consumers are interested in. “Given limited capital, resources and time, a lot of people thought it was too long of a putt,” Doug Lebda (photo above) told the WSJ. “The recession forced us to reacquaint ourselves with (the company’s) core mission and culture; to reinvent …