Hammering Out a Deal

Lucrative offers from North Carolina were enticing. But the icing on the cake that kept Hammer Lithographics in Rochester was the opportunity to work closely with and train its employees at RIT.

New York state and Monroe County officials fought off enticing economic packages offered to Hammer Lithograph by North Carolina state officials to not only build a new plant there, but move the 85-year-old package printer's existing plant as well. But despite the lucrative offer and incentives tendered by Tarheel officials, it was the lure of the opportunity to work closely with, and actually build a facility adjacent to the campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) that swayed President Jim Hammer to stay in upstate New York.