How it started
History
LRS was founded on September 21, 1979 by independent consultants Dick Levi, Roger Ray, and Bob Shoup. Levi eventually bought out his partners: Shoup in 1980, and Ray in 1993.
The company built its current headquarters in 1988. At the time, it had 37 employees. In 1998, the company had grown to 400 employees.
In 2019, LRS had 850 employees across 24 offices. About 361 employees were working at company headquarters, making LRS one of Springfield, IL’s largest private employers.
LRS acquired Pennington & Schurter Information Services, Inc. of Morton, Illinois, and Springfield-based Integrated Business Systems, Inc. (IBSI) in 1995; MacKenzie & Roth, Inc. of St. Louis in 1999; Capella Technologies, based in Anaheim, CA, in 2013; Stockholm, Sweden-based software company Cirrato Technologies AB in 2016; and US-based Drivve Inc. in 2018.
From Wikipedia’s article on Levi, Ray & Shoup, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2