May 9, 2020
The Covington News, local newspaper to Lendmark’s Covington support services, featured COO Joe Burgamy and Lendmark employees in a weekend edition article about how Lendmark’s innovative and resourceful employees, in partnership with local businesses, addressed the challenge of sourcing COVID-19 PPE needs for Lendmark employees.
As an essential business, Lendmark’s 350 branches in 19 states have remained open during the pandemic, modifying operations to serve its customers safely.
With the Covington location serving as the primary distribution center, more than 2,200 reusable, employee hand-sewn masks were shipped through Lendmark to its various branches in Georgia and abroad. COO Joe Burgamy said, “When our employees stepped up like that to make reusable masks on behalf of the company, it absolutely just spoke volumes of the quality of the employees and the spirit that we have in fighting this together. I could not be more pound of what Lendmark has done and what our employees have been able to do through this crisis.”
Burgamy added that there have been numerous similar stories of community partners and local companies in the states where Lendmark operates that have stepped up to help provide Lendmark’s front line employees with the necessary PPE’s to continue operation.
About Lendmark Financial Services
Headquartered in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Lendmark Financial Services is a consumer finance company specializing in providing a variety of personal loans, automobile loans, and retail merchant sales finance services. Since its inception in 1996, Lendmark has experienced significant growth by following its original mission of meeting the personal lending needs of consumers for both planned and unplanned life events. Today, with 350 branches in 19 states from coast to coast, Lendmark continues to expand as the financial services organization of choice for its customers and retail business partners by providing superior, consistent, and reliable services with every transaction.
