The 2021 Best of Alaska Business Awards.

Welcome to the 2021 Best of Alaska Business awards! We ask our readers to give us their input on the best businesses that Alaska has to offer, ranging from flower boutiques to accounting firms. Throughout March, readers voted in record numbers, yet another indication after a trying year of how Alaskans take extra effort to support local businesses.

We've retained many of our categories this year, including reader favorites like Best Place to Work and Best Brewery, but we're delighted to debut a few new categories: Best New Company in 2020 (welcome to the Alaska business community!), Best General Contractor, Best International Cuisine--and a few others, too.

The Alaska Business team is particularly enthusiastic about the July issue year after year because it gives us the opportunity to work closely with brilliant, Alaskan artists. This year Dan Miller of Dan Miller Graphics is the incredible talent behind our 2021 Best of Alaska Business awards artwork, including the stunning cover.

Miller is a freelance commercial artist with extensive experience with graphic design and illustration. He's provided his services for retailers, tourism companies, health and social services providers, and other industry clients around the Last Frontier.

We were drawn to...