OUR HISTORY
OUR HISTORY
Throughout the Gardner family’s ownership of Superior Trim, we have made, and continue to make, significant investments to ensure that Superior Trim has all of the appropriate technologies in-house and available to produce cost-competitive, high-quality interior and exterior trim products for medium/heavy duty trucks and other commercial vehicles that our customers expect.
Throughout the Gardner family’s ownership of Superior Trim, we have made, and continue to make, significant investments to ensure that Superior Trim has all of the appropriate technologies in-house and available to produce cost-competitive, high-quality interior and exterior trim products for medium/heavy duty trucks and other commercial vehicles that our customers expect.
Utilizing our core values that have been passed down from the Gardner ownership family, Superior Trim has continued to safely grow not only in size but in relative market share. Superior Trim now operates 8 facilities, and employes over 700 employees.
Superior Trim’s primary focus is to not only build a stronger more impactful company, but to be a difference maker in our customer and employee’s lives.
Utilizing our core values that have been passed down from the Gardner ownership family, Superior Trim has continued to safely grow not only in size but in relative market share. Superior Trim now operates 8 facilities, and employes over 700 employees.
Superior Trim’s primary focus is to not only build a stronger more impactful company, but to be a difference maker in our customer and employee’s lives.
>> Our Founder
Michael J. Gardner acquired Superior Trim in 1997. At that time, it was a small, one plant operation with approximately 40 employees and less than $10 million in annual revenues. Over the past two decades, Michael’s vision and business acumen allowed Superior Trim to grow into a multinational, six plant operation and 400 employees in 2015.
Michael instilled his beliefs in all of his employees, from management to production workers, and created a family-like culture resulting in a steady employment force dedicated to supplying products of the highest quality and delivering them on time for the commercial vehicle industry. His acquisitions and new plants were, and remain, strategically located to key customers in order to help them minimize their logistics costs and allow Superior Trim local, hands-on support of those customers.
Michael’s untimely passing in 2015 was a great loss not only to Superior Trim but to the Findlay community. His spirit and beliefs are still with the family that remains the sole owner of Superior Trim, as well as with all of its employees. The family and our employees are dedicated to carrying on his legacy for many years to come.
>> Our Founder
Michael J. Gardner acquired Superior Trim in 1997. At that time, it was a small, one plant operation with approximately 40 employees and less than $10 million in annual revenues. Over the past two decades, Michael’s vision and business acumen allowed Superior Trim to grow into a multinational, six plant operation and 400 employees in 2015.
Michael instilled his beliefs in all of his employees, from management to production workers, and created a family-like culture resulting in a steady employment force dedicated to supplying products of the highest quality and delivering them on time for the commercial vehicle industry. His acquisitions and new plants were, and remain, strategically located to key customers in order to help them minimize their logistics costs and allow Superior Trim local, hands-on support of those customers.
Michael’s untimely passing in 2015 was a great loss not only to Superior Trim but to the Findlay community. His spirit and beliefs are still with the family that remains the sole owner of Superior Trim, as well as with all of its employees. The family and our employees are dedicated to carrying on his legacy for many years to come.
