Printer company Lexmark International Inc, which has repeatedly mistreated workers in Mexico, has agreed to a deal that will take it private. A consortium of investors led by China-based Apex Technology Co Ltd and PAG Asia Capital will buy the company for $3.6 billion.
Read more at Reuters.
Lexmark has often been the subject of articles on GoodElectronics’s website because of labour issues at factories in Mexico. See for example:
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