A Local Global Company: Markem-Imaje

Richard Larson, Markem-Imaje Corporation

2 p.m. Thursday, November 5; Madison Street Lounge, Student Center
With 33 subsidiaries worldwide serving more than 30,000 customers, Markem-Imaje understands how globalization affects corporations. Dr. Larson’s interactive presentation will focus on aspects of the transition from a privately to a publically held company, looking specifically at how that transition impacted the company’s research and engineering divisions. Markem-Imaje reaches out to regional academic institutions for collaboration and resources, and Dr. Larson will talk about the skills that are necessary for those wanting to enter the industrial research and engineering fields.