Given $LAKE’s announcement last Wednesday stating a new “Strategic Partnership” with LineDrive, a leading outsourced sales and marketing organization, it gives us a chance to highlight a part of a post-earnings April conversation with the company’s CEO Roger Shannon about expanding LAKE’s market presence.

The partnership can be certainly viewed as a foreshadowing of things to come in the near future regarding Lakeland’s M&A initiatives, with the move potentially putting them in a position to accelerate the effectiveness of new partnerships or acquisitions.