The Lexmark UK office at Quantum Business Park is an energy-efficient building with its new LED lighting and C-70 Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). We also have a culture of diligently recycling our office waste, with recycling bins throughout the office, and using refillable drinking bottles to encourage plastic bottle waste reduction.
Our Flex@Lexmark programme, which enables our employees to have a more flexible and location-independent work schedule, and technology adoption (e.g., videoconferencing vs. business travel and in-person meetings) has helped conserve energy and water at our facility as well as reduce emissions from business travel and commuting.
Lexmark has once again been awarded A4 Printer/MFP Vendor of the Year at the PrintIT Awards 2024. This recognition comes from votes by dealers, resellers, and managed print and IT service providers, who praised Lexmark for consistently delivering outstanding customer service, offering strong and innovative products, solutions, and services, and going above and beyond to help partners achieve revenue growth, secure new business, and expand into new markets and customer segments.
Lexmark UK’s Jade Fraser has been shortlisted for the Outstanding Team Member of the Year at the 2024 PrintIT Awards. The category honours individuals who go above and beyond, and Jade exemplifies this in her role as a Distribution Account Manager.
Lexmark Cloud Fleet Management was shortlisted for Device Management Solution of the Year at the PrintIT 2024 Awards. This award acknowledges vendors who provide comprehensive device management solutions, enabling effective management of customers' cost-per-page contracts, including meter reading, consumables monitoring, and invoicing, all within a single platform.
The new Lexmark 9-series was shortlisted for A3 MFP Line of the Year at the PrintIT 2024 Awards. This award honours A3 MFP lines that meet specific customer needs, feature new or leading-edge technologies, cutting-edge security, advanced functionality, first-to-market developments, superior design quality, reliability, and impressive user-centricity.
Lexmark was shortlisted for the PrintIT Award for Best Partner Programme, which recognises established UK channel partner programmes that support and encourage channel partners to develop, manage and optimise growth opportunities and expand into new markets.
Lexmark was shortlisted for the PrintIT Award for Employee Experience, which recognises an organisation that is focused on creating a positive employee experience and is committed to putting employees at heart of what they do.
Lexmark was recognised at the Technology Reseller Awards 2023 for our sustainability efforts, highlighting our carbon neutrality goal by 2035 and our progress in reducing our emissions over the years. Also highlighted were our zero-to-landfill policy, our EcoVadis Platinum rating, our recognition from Quocirca as a Sustainable Leader in 2022, and our incorporation of sustainability into our products.
Lexmark UK has been shortlisted for the Stock in the Channel Awards 2023 in the Vendor of the Year category in Printer Consumables. This data-driven nomination reflects the team's hard work in building strong relations and creating solutions for every business.
Lexmark has been awarded the A4 Printer/MFP Vendor of the Year in the 2023 PrintIT Awards.
Lexmark UK’s Dwayne Cowas has been awarded Account Manager of the Year in the 2023 PrintIT Awards. Dwayne is an experienced account manager with 30 years of experience in the industry. He uses his depth of expertise to support Lexmark customers, offering the insight and guidance that nurture lifelong customer partnerships.
We are also taking part in combating deforestation and offsetting CO2 emissions through the Fruitful Office. Each week, we receive a basket of various fruits, which are free for anyone at the office to eat. Fruitful Office collaborates with the UK charity Ripple Africa to plant a fruit tree in Malawi for every basket/box delivered to Lexmark UK. Ripple Africa, one of the largest and most successful tree-planting projects in Malawi, provides a long-term solution to combat deforestation in Africa as well as carrying out large-scale environmental projects and small-scale initiatives in the fields of education and health. In 2024, we have planted 24 trees through this campaign.
Fruits are sourced in the UK and Western Europe to help support UK producers and minimise fuel emissions from long-haul transportation. The fruits are also packaged in an eco-friendly manner—100% compostable or recyclable and plastic-free.
Our UK team has launched various health, safety and well-being activities. Wellness Wednesday emails are sent out to encourage employees, especially with a hybrid, location-independent work setup, to focus on self-care, such as taking breaks and leisurely walks, gardening and being in touch with wildlife, staying active and eating healthy, taking care of pets, or simply, slowing down. More health and safety training is also planned for the coming year.
In May 2024, Lexmark UK marked Mental Health Awareness Week with “Wear it Green Day” as a reminder to exercise self-care and take care of each other every day of the year.
October 3, 2024, was Wear It Pink Day across EMEA. In the UK and across EMEA, we asked colleagues to wear pink to acknowledge the day. Additionally, an awareness session was held to gain insights, share stories, and learn about breast cancer prevention, early detection, and support resources.
We organized a Tea and Talk event at the office and included a remote session for those who couldn't join in person. Research by the Mental Health Foundation shows that talking is beneficial for mental health, and this was a great chance to connect in a relaxed setting.
Lexmark UK hosted a roundtable discussion on men’s wellbeing, addressing mental, social, and physical health from diverse perspectives. Movember at Lexmark was promoted by Women@Work, a Diversity Network Group (DNG), and aimed to raise awareness for mental health, suicide prevention, prostate cancer, and testicular cancer.
Each year, Lexmark UK proudly supports the Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice. For Christmas 2024, Lexmark employees contributed to the Christmas Giving Tree, bringing gifts for the children at the hospice. As Christmas is a time to create precious memories with their families, the care team at Alexander Devine compiled a list of gifts they wished to receive from Santa. Lexmarkers generously provided these gifts for the charity and the children.
Six members of the Lexmark Global Alliance of LGBTQ+ Employees (GALE) EMEA from the UK and Geneva marched in the Pride in London Parade in July 2023. The parade started at the Hyde Park Corner and finished at the Whitehall Place. Over 600 LGBT+ community groups, with 30,000 participants, joined the parade.
Each year, the Lexmark UK office selects a local charity to support. Pre-pandemic, we aimed to do one physical challenge event per year to help raise money and awareness for the charity as well as build us up as a team.
In September 2024, the Lexmark UK office held The Great Office Bake Off to support Myeloma UK. The event featured a variety of impressive baked goods, showcasing the baking talents of the employees. Myeloma UK is the only UK charity dedicated to myeloma, a type of blood cancer. They provide support, information, and fund research to improve treatments and find a cure.
In 2023, GALE UK set up a rainbow table at the office where Lexmarkers shared canned goods and other food items. The collected food was donated to those affected by the cost-of-living crisis and food poverty through Foodshare, an organisation serving the Maidenhead community by providing food support to nearly 450 people weekly since 2011.
Lexmark UK designated September as its Cancer Awareness Month. In 2023, the team hosted various activities such as quizzes, coffee mornings, bake sales, awareness promotion/campaigns, and donations to cancer charities.
In October 2024, Lexmark sponsored the Bridgewater Thank You Awards organised by the Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHFT). The award honours individuals and teams who provide outstanding community healthcare services.
Lexmark sponsored the Tour D’Alliance, an annual charity cycle event by our partner Alliance Healthcare. Two Alliance Healthcare teams covered over 1,000 km across the UK in just four days, from June 15 to 18, 2022. The event raised more than £40,000 for two charities, Vitamin Angels UK and Theodora Children’s Charity, both are focused on the health and well-being of children in the UK and across the world. Funds raised can help fight malnutrition by providing nutritious foods to twelve nurseries across the country.
Being a long-time partner of the Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, Lexmark sponsored the Liverpool Women’s Hospital Staff Excellence Awards, on June 30, 2022, celebrating staff achievements.
Lexmark was one of the original sponsors for the Unsung Hero Awards, the only national awards for non-medical/non-clinical NHS staff and volunteers who go above and beyond the call of duty. In 2021, we were the IT & Digital 2021 Online Category Sponsor, and we presented the award at the ceremony.
