“LexisNexis is just the kind of company we like to attract to Centennial because it’s innovative and likes to engage with our students and faculty,” Centennial Campus spokesman Gene Pinder said. “They benefit being here by having close proximity to our College of Engineering, which is literally across the street from the company’s offices.”
Pinder said he had no information about new jobs being moved from Dayton to North Carolina, but did say that LexisNexis already has 450 employees in a standalone building in the “heart” of the campus.
That area of North Carolina is known as the “Research Triangle” because of its proximity to three major research universities — North Carolina State, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Duke University.
This newspaper reported Wednesday night that LexisNexis is planning to move technology jobs from its Dayton campus to North Carolina.
The online legal research company has long said it has about 3,000 employees in Miami Twp. But the company would not answer questions this week about how many employees work today at company buildings off Springboro Pike.
“As we continue to build a software and technology center of excellence in Raleigh, North Carolina, some technology roles will move from Miamisburg to Raleigh over time,” the company said in a statement. “On balance, the total number of employees across the LexisNexis Legal & Professional business remains consistent with prior years.”
In 2013, a company spokesman said the local campus had about 3,400 jobs, and a spokesman, Marc Osborn, then called the campus the company’s “flagship facility.” At the time, the campus was called LexisNexis’s biggest single-site employer.
“The Dayton, Ohio site continues to be the largest Reed Elsevier and LexisNexis site globally,” Osborn said in July 2013. “We remain committed to our flagship facility in Dayton and LexisNexis is making tremendous investments in our business and technology in Dayton with our New Lexis initiatives.”
LexisNexis was born in Dayton as the Mead Data Corp. in 1966.
Last month, the company said that it will “build teams in certain areas of the business and reduce in others,” but it offered no specifics.
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