What began a century ago as a simple furniture polish laboratory and plant in the garage of founder Frank Meguiar, Jr., now spans over 100 years of Meguiar family stewardship. Meguiar’s, Inc. has become one of the world’s leading surface care products companies, providing highly specialized products for almost every conceivable type of surface.
“Most family businesses fail to transition to the second generation,” explains Barry Meguiar, president and CEO of Meguiar’s, Inc. “And even when they do, they usually lose their momentum. The difference for our family has been our inborn passion for what we do…it fuels the driving force that moves us forward and exhilarates us every day. We view the company as much more than a business and an opportunity to make money. Quite frankly, if that were all that it represented to us, we would have sold out long ago. Eventually, that is what most successful family businesses do.”
In his wildest dreams, it’s doubtful that Barry’s grandfather, Frank Meguiar, Jr., could have foreseen what his first bottle of furniture polish in 1901 would evolve into over the next 100 years. When he first began, he made one bottle of polish at a time using an eggbeater. Eventually, he was able to produce enough product at night with his kids, to fill the orders he would generate the next day to pay for groceries.
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Dutch: www.meguiars.be
English: www.meguiars.com
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