The new jobs will be high paying and high quality ones and that is what Lexington's future is all about. The impact of the Lexmark expansion on Lexington will be multi-faceted. Some of those facets are revealed by a view of Lexmark itself and what the company has brought to the area. We're a teamwork company. The full statement is framed and displayed near the main reception desk.
Huge banners hang from high ceilings in production areas reminding the teams of that goal.
In 1991, when Lexmark emerged from under the IBM umbrella, a group of employees formulated the new company's vision statement. The same group recently revisited that statement and didn't change a word. Lexmark's strategy has proved a winning one. Return to shareholders since the stock's initial public offering in November of 1995 has been a whopping aggregate growth rate of 403 percent. Business Week's list of the 100 top information technology companies ranked Lexmark as Number 10 in 1998 and Number 11 for 1999.