All in the Family

It almost didn't happen

Andrew Carey was 11 years old, living in England with his parents, when he made an inadvertent purchase that started a chain reaction in his family like no other. While he and his family were vacationing in Scotland, Carey was asked to bring home a specific Sunday paper so his father could look in the help-wanted pages for a job. The local store ran out of the paper his father asked for, so he brought home a different one. That newspaper included an advertisement for a job that eventually led Kevin Carey to Lasercomb GmbH. That was in 1978. "If I had brought the right paper home, he wouldn't have seen the advert and who knows where we'd all be at this point?" said Carey.