COE closes 2015 with 6 new members
The Center for Operational Excellence is closing out 2015 by hitting the 40-member milestone, 23 years after its founding.
COE welcomed six new member companies over the course of the year, most recently:
Core Molding Technologies Inc. Columbus-based Core Molding is a plastic manufacturing company whose products include sheet molding compounds and fiberglass reinforced plastics. Its chief customers are in the truck manufacturing and automotive supply businesses. Core Molding has production facilities in Columbus and Batavia, Ohio; Gaffney, S.C.; and Matamoros, Mexico, with a total payroll of about 1,500. The company recorded a profit of $9.6 million on $175 million in revenue last year.
COE this year also welcomed:
Crown Equipment Corp. The New Bremen, Ohio-based company makes a broad range of forklifts and automation and fleet management technologies. Vertically integrated, Crown has 12,000 employees and 17 manufacturing facilities in 11 locations worldwide, along with four regional headquarters spread around the globe and more than 500 retail locations in about 80 countries. The company employs more than 12,000. Earlier this year, Crown cemented its presence in its home state by completing an expansion project that doubled the size of its electronics assembly plant.
FedEx Services. Memphis-based FedEx Services is one of four operating arms of FedEx Corp., the $47 billion-a-year transportation, e-commerce and business services giant. It began operations in 2000, providing information technology, sales, and marketing support for FedEx’s Express and Group subsidiaries. FedEx Freight and Office were later aligned with Services, which has about 12,000 team members and recorded $1.5 billion in annual revenue.
KeyCorp. The Cleveland-based bank has about $94 billion in assets and a network of nearly 1,300 ATMs and 1,000 full-service branches across 12 states, employing more than 13,000 employees. Key in its home state of Ohio is the six-largest bank by deposits, holding about 8% of the market across 229 branches.
Progressive Corp. Based near Cleveland, Ohio, Progressive was founded in 1937 and ranks as the fourth-largest auto insurer in the U.S. The company employs more than 26,000 and recorded a profit of $1.3 billion on $19 billion in revenue for 2014.
Safelite Group Inc. The Columbus-based glass repair provider fixes and replaces windshields through a network of about 90 facilities and 6,500 MobileGlassShops across the country. Safelite said nearly 5 million customers used its services in 2014. The company, which employs more than 12,000 nationwide, this year ranked as one of the 10 best places to work in Central Ohio among companies employing 250 or more in Columbus Business First's annual list.
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