Cintas Chairman Dick Farmer Speech at Xavier University Prt1

Part 1 of Cintas Chairman, Dick Farmer giving a speech at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH as part of the university's Distinguished Speakers Series on April 18, 2008. After giving the speech, it was announced that the business ethics school would be renamed the Cintas Institute for Business Ethics.

In Part 1 of his speech, Dick Farmer talks about the founding of the company that would eventually become the Cintas Corporation of today. Dick Farmer's grandparents Doc and Amelia Farmer started a small family business in 1929, born out of the Depression, in Cincinnati, OH. They picked up old, greasy factory rags, cleaned them, and then sold them back to the factories. The small company was named ACME Wiper and Industrial Laundry.

Dick Farmer's 1st decision was in 1957; to join the family business after graduating from college at Miami University and returning from the Marine Corps.

Dick Farmer kept pushing new business ideas to his father when finally one day his father turned the business over to Dick. Dick had to learn how to operate a business on the fly.

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