CompuCom bringing 1,500 jobs to Lancaster County

Largest job announcement in Carolinas this year

By Mandy Catoe

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Texas-based CompuCom Systems Inc. is relocating its headquarters to Indian Land, bringing a $41 million capital investment and creating 1,500 jobs over the next five to seven years.
It’s the largest single job announcement in Lancaster County history, said Gov. Nikki Haley’s office.
“This is an exciting new chapter in CompuCom’s journey,” said CompuCom CEO Dan Stone. “We will build a state-of-the-art command center” that will be “closer to many of our clients, as well as near an expanding network of IT professionals in North and South Carolina.”
Founded in 1987 and based in Plano, Tex., CompuCom is a privately held global company that focuses on helping businesses outsource their information technology services. With about 11,500 employees, it is a partner to six of the Top 10 Fortune 500 companies.
Its new 150,000-square-foot Indian Land facility will be located in Bailes Ridge Business Park on S.C. 160, housing its headquarters and global contact-center operations. Work on the site is already under way.
Lancaster County officials expressed excitement and said the deal is a team effort that began in fall 2015 when interim economic director Michael Trotter and County Administrator Steve Willis began negotiations with CompuCom in Columbia.
“This speaks volumes for our business climate and the potential we have to support corporate facilities,” said Jamie Gilbert, who became the county’s economic development director in July.
“Not only is this the county’s largest single new job announcement in the county’s history, this is the largest in the state and the Carolinas this year,” he said.
Gilbert was quick to credit Trotter and Willis and the S.C. Department of Commerce.
“Michael Trotter and Steve Willis began this, and I picked it up when I began this past summer,” Gilbert said. “We got it in the end zone as a team…. It shows what that partnership can accomplish.”
Hiring will begin before the end of this month, the company said. Those interested in applying for the new positions should visit the company’s career page online at compucom.com/careers.
“We are thrilled to have them locate in Lancaster,” Willis said.
“They will be a great fit and addition. The 160 and 521 area is turning into a corporate headquarters. The success of Red Ventures and Movement Mortgage bodes well for the success of CompuCom.”
“Lancaster County is ecstatic,” said county council Chairman Bob Bundy. “This is very exciting news for the county, region and state, as we are getting one of the world’s leading IT and network solutions providers and over a thousand high-salary jobs.”
Haley’s office said the state’s Coordinating Council for Economic Development has approved job-development credits for the project, along with a Rural Infrastructure Fund grant of $1 million to assist with construction costs.
“When a company like CompuCom decides to build its global headquarters and create 1,500 new jobs here, it sends a message to the entire world that South Carolina is open for business,” Haley said.
“The commitment that this $41 million investment represents is extremely important to our state, and we could not be more excited to welcome this fantastic company to the South Carolina family.”