June 29, 2026
Ask Lexicon Inc. CEO Patrick Schueck about his employee-owned company’s revenue numbers and he’ll give you positive news.
The Little Rock steel fabricator and steel-focused building contractor reported revenue of about $1.4 billion, with further revenue growth expected this year and 2027, Schueck told Whispers this month.
But if you ask if those figures would impress Schueck’s father, company founder and Arkansas Business Hall of Fame member Thomas B. Schueck, the answer starts with a laugh.
“You knew my dad, right?” Patrick said. “He would not be satisfied with where we have grown to today. He would double down and push harder and want to grow bigger and faster, and wonder why the hell we’re not doing better.”
Tom Schueck, who died at 78 in 2020, famously started Schueck Steel Products in 1968 in a converted Little Rock garage with just $800 in the bank. An engineer by training, he wanted to work for himself, and work he did.
He put Lexicon firmly on the map by winning the contract to build the Nucor-Yamato steel mill in Mississippi County in 1986, and the company has been involved in countless huge projects ever since, including the NFL stadiums of the Dallas Cowboys and Atlanta Falcons, and the multibillion-dollar Big River Steel complex in Osceola.
“My dad thought we should be the builders of everything,” Patrick Schueck said. “He would push us to greatness with every living breath that he ever had.”
