Business Profile: G&L Oil Company

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Image removed.G&L Oil Company, located at 2011 W. County Road 54 in Tiffin, has been in the Seneca County community, providing excellent customer service to their diverse range of clients since 1938. Purchased by Kim Walton in 1989 and moved to its current location in 2007, the business includes G&L Oil, Brobst Trucking Inc., as well as  the G&L Shell and G&L Car Wash at the corner of SR 100 and US 224. G&L Oil sells motor oils, greases, transmission fluids and liquids including motor oils, hydraulics oils, greases, solvents, antifreeze, and other products to their walk in, farmer, industrial, and commercial customers. They are also a distributor of gasoline and diesel fuel to commercial, farmers, industrial, and heating oil customers. Product comes in bulk totes, drums, kegs, and cases, and are all available in their warehouse on County Road 54. G&L sells 30K gallons of oil per month (Mobil, Idemitsu, Shell, Pennzoil, Wolfs Head and Duramax) in totes (250-300 gallon plastic containers, drums, etc.). One of their customers, Expercon (Toledo), is helping clear out harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie.  Local industrial customers also include Webster, AFS and Taiho. G&L is part of the State of Ohio's Encouraging Diversity, Growth and Equity (EDGE) program, designed to assist socially and economically disadvantaged businesses in obtaining state government contracts in the following areas: construction, architecture and engineering; professional services; goods and services; and information technology services. They have also utilized the GrowNow program through the Ohio Treasurer of State, which enables small business owners to receive up to a 3% interest rate reduction on new or existing loans for two years, with the opportunity for renewal for another two year period, with the creation or retention of at least one full-time job or two part-time jobs in the State of Ohio for every $50,000 borrowed, up to $400,000. Additionally, G&L has worked with the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation on potential Safety Grants. The company has 23 employees, including 11 at the Shell service station, and two of Kim's daughters, Kristen Hill and Marissa Walton. Last October, they also brought on a new salesperson to help grow the business. Plans to expand also include the recent purchase of a $250k tanker truck, driven by Kim's son-in-law, Mark Hill. [gallery ids="https://tiffinseneca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/gl-2.jpg|,https://tiffinseneca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/gl-3.jpg|,https://tiffinseneca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/gl-4.jpg|" type="rectangular"]
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