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Ohio Business Spotlight
January's Ohio Business Spotlight
A challenging 2020 ended with a flurry of business activity across Ohio. As Ohio kicks off a new year, we wanted to highlight the growing logistics and transportation sectors that are so important to businesses in and around the Buckeye State. After all, 60 percent of Americans are within 600 miles of Ohio! These often small, family run companies provide products to the stores we shop at, medicine to our hospitals, and serve as the unseen middleman that keep our state running strong while also providing important, well-paying jobs.
A logistics service is built from people, computers, and infrastructure to heighten supply chain efficiency and strategy to streamline a business’s bottom line. This month’s business spotlight looks at different logistics & transportation companies from around our state that do the work to make our lives more livable -- especially during a pandemic!
For more about logistics and distribution in Ohio, please visit the JobsOhio logistics page.
Address: 3007 Harding Hwy E, Marion, OH, 43302
County of Headquarters: Marion
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Marion Industrial Center provides comprehensive industrial storage and distribution for products, using truck, van, or rail. They have four locations and over two million square feet of space where customers can store, ship, and organize products, from food-grade products to heavy machinery up to 300 tons.
Along with Whirlpool on the other side of town, Marion Industrial Center is at the heart of Marion’s manufacturing economy and the key to continued growth in the area.
Address: 354 B South Jackson St, Sabina OH 45169
County of Headquarters: Clinton
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A small business located in Sabina, Ohio that hauls agricultural products for farmers and companies that support farmers. This includes feed, ingredients to make feed, fertilizers, and grain.
Ohio’s more than 77,000 farms range from small hobby farms to large, family-run operations. All of them require supplies to be a successful part of the Buckeye State’s massive food and agriculture industry – the largest industry in the state – which contributes $124 billion annually to Ohio’s economy.
Address: 450 Town St, Circleville, OH 43113
County of Headquarters: Pickaway
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Since 1978, Health Care Logistics has been a health care industry leader specializing in manufacturing, packaging, and distributing unique and hard-to-find products. They stock more than 8,000 products from 22 unique lines, including compounding and dispensing products, infection prevention supplies and unit dose packaging materials, as well as vaccine storage solutions.
They have spent more than 30 years tailoring their business to the needs of their customers. They even host a blog to discuss the latest products, services, industry science, and more.
Address: 3201 Columbia Rd, Richfield OH 44286
County of Headquarters: Summit
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Started in 2007 by a former FedEx package handler turned driver, the original single route has turned into not just a full family business, but employees many more Ohioans. Slicker Trucking operates in Northeast Ohio both in Pick-up & Delivery AND Linehaul divisions managing over 80 delivery areas each day. Their entrepreneurial spirit and dedication to the business and employees is based on Honesty, Integrity and Commitment to People. On any given day you will still find the owner under a truck fixing headlights, shuttling trucks, or running a route. He is as hands on today as he was in the beginning.
Slicker Trucking was recently honored by FedEx as their entrepreneur of the year for excelling in customer service, safety, and other important industry and business categories.
Address: 1427 Sprang Pkwy, Mansfield, OH 44903
County of Headquarters: Richland
Ashland Railway began operations in 1986 and operates in Richland, Ashland, Huron, and Wayne counties. They are a 56-mile short line railroad serving North Central Ohio in a region known as Mid-Ohio. Located between Cleveland, Columbus, and Akron/Canton along the I-71 corridor, they provide essential rail service to half a dozen communities.
Coupled with their affiliated companies, Skye Trucking and Mansfield Railport, they offer customers a complete logistics package to help businesses grow and reach new customers.
Address: 100 N. Summit St., Suite 400, Toledo, OH 43604
County of Headquarters: Lucas
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Polaris Logistics Group is a leader in the 3PL industry, with strategic planning, innovative solutions and a commitment to communication throughout your delivery process. Polaris Logistics Group brings decades of transport and supply chain experience to everything they do, from full and LTL truckloads to intermodal and flatbed freight.
For the 2nd time, Polaris Logistics Group appears on the Inc. 5000, ranking No. 1793 with three-year revenue growth of 228 percent.
Address: 3201 Columbia Rd, Richfield OH 44286
County of Headquarters: Summit
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Forty-plus years of dedication and hard work are evidenced by this stable and successful trucking company. Thomas Trucking began in the basement of Cal and Christine Thomas’ home in 1972, with a lease to Casket Distributors, hauling “underground furniture."
Within three years, Cal and Christine had purchased seven tractors and had expanded to haul dry and refrigerated freight. In 1984, Thomas acquired another company and moved to the present location on Seymour Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cal made sure the trucks were in top shape by working on them at night, along with mechanic Carl Allen, after he worked a full day at P&G. Christine kept the operations going during the day, performing dispatch and all other office functions.
At the present time, Thomas Trucking, Inc. runs 20 trucks; owning about 15 tractors, 35 trailers and has five Owner Operators. Trucks are full and drivers are busy. One full-time mechanic and three office/dispatch personnel keep up with the demands of customers.
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