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Past to Present
JEGS began life as one of those neat little speed shops. Back in 1960, Jeg Coughlin Sr. opened JEGS High Performance in Columbus, Ohio. Jeg was a speed freak, but was limited by his Midwest location that made it difficult to find the parts he wanted. As he slowly found the stuff he was looking for, his buddies came to him to build their engines, and before long he had opened the doors to a full-on retail business. It was the heyday of the speed shop, and JEGS was the place to go in Central Ohio. Fast-forward to 1988, when Jegs four sons, John, Troy, Mike and Jeg, Jr., purchased the operation with the assistance of their father. The wheels were set in motion and the company dove headfirst into the mail order business as a team. After several expansions at the original location, what started out as a 4000 square-foot speed shop now encompasses a 100,000 square-foot warehouse a chassis shop, a call center and the original retail store. Two other stores and two additional call centers are also located in the metropolitan Columbus area. In the fall of 1999 a newly built state-of-the-art distribution center and headquarters opened. There are now over 300 associates. But it all started as a small family-run speed shop, and that founding company culture remains strong. The business continues to maintain the one-on-one relationship with their customers.

Knowing your product
The parts that JEGS sells are not only used by their associates, but also by the owners of the company, who all race. TThe most obvious success is Jeg, Jr’s three NHRA Pro Stock championships (2000, 2002 & 2007) and he also won the ’92 NHRA Super Gas title competing in the sportsman ranks. All four brothers are deeply involved in drag racing, and the JEGS team invades every NHRA national event and a lot of divisional events with the familiar yellow and black paint scheme on their rigs. Inside the transporters you will find their respective race vehicles and a host spare parts. All of the parts on the race cars are available through JEGS, and while there’s not a lot of experimentation in the name of product sales development on the Pro Stock cars, the Sportsman-level and bracket racing vehicles of John, Troy, Mike and Jeg, Jr. are frequent test beds for new parts under evaluation. JEGS also carry’s a line of Jegster suspension parts that are designed, developed, and manufactured at the original 11th Avenue shop.

Getting the product to the valued customer
JEGS has several retail stores throughout Columbus, but the bulk of the business is done at their state-of-the-art headquarters in the Columbus suburb of Delaware, Ohio. There is over 200,000 square-feet to the main building, which is divided between the offices in front and the enormous automated warehouse in back. The office area also includes all of the administrative offices and a bank of sales people, as well as a cafeteria that looks like it would make a great racing-themed restaurant. As impressive as the offices are, the warehouse and order-processing layout is extremely efficient and effective.

The “hardware” portion of the headquarters is enormous, with a fully automated shipping department to parts racks that run the length of the warehouse and stretch to the top of the 50-foot ceiling. All of the parts are stored in very specific places throughout the warehouse to ease shipping, and the computer-automated retrieval system, packaging, and shipping assembly lines are what modern computer technology.

Placing an order
Once you make an order, either online or over the phone, the order is processed and the computers go to work sending instructions to pick parts off of the shelves in the three-level flow rack system, the automated retrieval system and to the large VNA racking area. Everything funnels down onto a conveyor so that all the parts for one order end up at the same place at the same time. Then they are boxed, weighed to make sure everything is accounted for, labeled, and finally sent to the out-bound shipping area and is loaded onto the trailer of the assigned logistics carrier.

Information regarding JEGS Mail Order can be found at www.jegs.com and for media/fan resources check out www.teamjegs.com.

Media Contact:
Scott "Woody" Woodruff
JEGS, Director of Media & Motorsports
Office: 800.345.4545 (3.412)
Mobile: 614.595.1820
Fax: 740.362.4385
Email: jegspr@aol.com -or- scott.woodruff@jegs.com

 

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