Scott Farmer’s 18-year tenure as president and CEO of Cintas Corp., Mason, OH, has featured several tests of his leadership skills, according to two key lieutenants.
After a 40-year tenure that has witnessed unprecedented innovation and meteoric growth in the uniform and industrial services sector and related markets, Cintas Corp. Chairman Scott Farmer now sees his company’s biggest long-term challenge in figuring out how to compete not only against other laundries, but with online companies such as Amazon and retailers such as Wal-Mart.