Welcome the JEGS High Performance, one of America's most
exciting companies.
As the nation's premier distributor of high performance parts and accessories, JEGS serves
countless car enthusiasts online, over the phone, or right in the store.
But the company you see today grew from humble beginnings, the result of years of hard work
by a team of dedicated people, motivated by the vision of one family.
It's a story of one man and his sons and their singular, shared passion and drive, of a family
that knows how to win while remembering where they came from and those less fortunate.
It's the story of a family, their friends, and a team of devoted associates.
This is the story of the Coughlin family, and JEGS High Performance.
Before the trophies, the titles, and the multi-million dollar distribution center and corporate office,
JEGS High Performance began in 1960 with one small store in Columbus, Ohio.
That store was opened by Jeg Coughlin Sr. whose vision was simple, find for himself
and sell to others the hard to find auto-parts that gear heads wanted and racing enthusiasts
needed.
Before long JEGS became the place to go for people who are serious about their cars, what
went on them, and what went inside them.
But the growing success of JEGS High Performance was just half the story, Jeg Coughlin loved
to race, and he did more than just show up, he won.
In 1970 he was named NHRA Sportsman of the Year.
And with his racing success JEGS High Performance became a household name in racing circles.
If you stopped right there you'd have a heck of a story, but for Jeg Sr. and the Coughlin
family, the story was just beginning.
In 1988 Jeg's four sons John, Mike, Troy, and Jeg Jr. purchased the family business.
And with the assistance of their father jumped into the fast growing, mail order catalogue
industry.
Business boomed and what once began with one storefront in a 4,000-foot warehouse was expanding
almost annually.
And as the family business grew, their commitment to racing deepened.
All four sons have raced at the highest levels of NHRA drag racing, while Jeg Jr. in particular
with three championships, has made a name for himself as one of the NHRA's most successful,
high profile drivers.
But our success on the track would mean little if we weren't champions off it as well.
And that takes a team of people working as one.
Our human resources team hires and develops great talent from our information technology
team, to our purchasing and inventory team.
We're all committed to making sure our customers can get the products they want, when they
want them.
JEGS considers our vendors to be partners, and our accounting team keeps these relationships
strong, by consistently and efficiently processing all vendor payments.
Our print advertising team produces and distributes over 1 million catalogs each month, and places
ads in major magazines and trade publications.
Our catalog is produced completely in-house, and is continually recognized as the best
in the industry.
Meanwhile, our web team ensures that all of our JEGS products are available 24/7 to give
our customers an exciting shopping experience, right in the comfort of their own home.
Of course JEGS' retail, customer care, and mail order teams assist our customers with
the highest level of customer service.
In fact, when an order is placed either online, or over the phone, it comes into one of our
customer care centers, and is linked instantly with our distribution center computer system.
The computer system immediately determines where each order is located, develops a task
list, selects the appropriate pack station for the order, then prints an invoice.
The pack station identifies the proper size box for the order, while the products are
picked from one of three areas.
Larger items come from the VNA large racking area, medium sized items from the three level
mezzanine flow racks, and small items are retrieved by robotic arms from the automated
storage retrieval system.
Once picked, the items travel through a maze of conveyor belts before arriving almost simultaneously
at the specified pack station.
The items are then checked against the invoice, scanned, and placed in a box, and given a
unique tracking number.
The complete box then travels by conveyor to the protective air packing station, and
across a high volume speed scale.
If the box weight varies by one pound or more from its target weight, it is automatically
pushed down a separate conveyor for manual checking.
But if it checks out right, it's on to the outbound shipping area.
Once placed, the order is either in pick, in pack, packed, manifested or loaded.
It all adds up to this, giving our customers exactly what they want in the quickest, most
efficient manner possible, and guaranteeing delivery in two business days or less.
It's this unqualified commitment to our customers that has made JEGS the undisputed leader in
the industry.
Of course with our success has come a desire to give back.
In 2003, the Coughlin family established the JEGS Foundation, a nonprofit charity committed
to raising both funds and awareness for cancer research.
Since its inception, the foundation has raised and donated millions of dollars in the battle
for a cure, and their commitment continues to grow each year.
And if past performance indicates future success, you can bet they won't stop until the goal
is reached.
The commitment to people and family values is the cornerstone of JEGS' success in business,
on the track, and in the community.
And our associates are a part of our team.