| Mead |
Courthouse Plaza NE,
Dayton,
OH
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www.mead.com
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(937) 495-6323
Fax: (937) 495-3631
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Nostalgic for the fabulous eighties
The largest provider of school and office supplies in the U.S., Mead was founded in 1882 with a single Ohio mill. The company expanded its product line over the next century by acquiring numerous mills and production plants across the U.S. Mead currently focuses its efforts on the production and distribution of home, school, and office supplies (responsible for the majority of its sales); packaging paper; and coated and uncoated papers. The company?s 1970s foray into electronic publishing resulted in the highly successful LEXIS (the largest legal research database) and NEXIS (the largest news and business information database). Following flagging sales, Mead recently begun to sell off a number of its unprofitable businesses, including its electronic data services, and Zellerbach distribution business to International Paper. The company has also begun to engage in a large-scale rapid cost reduction strategy. Now, Mead hopes to recapture the glory days of the 1980s, when its school products dominated the market.
Fortuna's wheel rising?
The company saw a surge in profits in 1999. A price increase in certain types of paper, lower inventories, improved export, and a recovering Asia all helped the firm. In addition, the company has bought new mills in Maine, upstate New York, and England and has expanded its Stevenson, Alabama mill. The company is also modernizing and streamlining. Each site now does its own financial services work; and the company is spending $100 million over four years to upgrade the computer system it uses to keep track of operations. Mead was also recently named a top 500 e-business innovator by PC Week Online
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Applicants should consult Mead's employment Web page, located at www.mead.com/mead/employ, for constantly updated information on openings in all of Mead's divisions and departments. Currently, the company is most actively recruiting college graduates with management experience or with degrees in Computer Science or Engineering. In addition, the company favors applicants with computer proficiency. Resumes can be sent by regular mail or fax to a number of the company's offices. The Web page lists specific contact information with each job listing; most new hires begin in the Dayton, Ohio headquarters.
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Team-oriented work
Mead organizes employees into "highly effective teams" that enjoy "a significant degree of autonomy" in deciding how they meet their goals. Employees say that they find their assignments "challenging?" and that Mead's upper management not only provides "constant feedback" but also "rewards results." While some call the workday at Mead "long" and "hectic," others say that this "fast-paced environment" provides "constant excitement." While Mead's pay scale is "only average," entry-level employees can "quickly? be considered for "substantial" promotions.
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