Kirby Lester Celebrates 40 Years

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It was 1971 when John and Frank Kirby and Rodney Lester moved their newly formed company from England to Stamford, Conn., to begin developing their first tablet counter to replace the common method of counting medications by hand. The product was the KL7, which represented a major timesaving device. Today, Kirby Lester has more than 40,000 customers in almost 40 countries. "Forty years is an amazing accomplishment, considering the frenetic pace of today's technology-driven world," says Garry Zage, Kirby Lester's president and CEO. The company is now located in Lake Forest, Ill.