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The
Gillig Corporation is a
privately held California
corporation based in Hayward, 25
miles southeast of San Francisco.
The company is over 110 years
old and is 100% U.S. owned and
operated. We manufacture and
sell heavy duty transit buses.
Gillig
was founded in San Francisco in
1890
by Jacob Gillig, for the purpose
of customizing and rebuilding
transportation vehicles of that
era - carriages and buggies. The
great San Francisco earthquake and
fire of 1906 destroyed the
original shop, but Jacob's sons,
Chester and Leo, rebuilt the
factory. The business evolved and grew
into the custom building of
automobile bodies, specialty trucks,
and early model buses.
The
corporation continued to grow,
under leadership committed to
providing quality and value to its
customers. Creative engineering
and aggressive problem solving led
to many innovative product
firsts, such as the patented
California Top for touring cars of
the 1920's, the first transit
style school bus in the
1930's, the first rear engine
diesel powered coach in 1959, and
the first production built,
dedicated LNG transit bus in 1992
- all products using advanced
technology of the day, to optimize
quality and value.
Now,
over 100 years later, Gillig is
still growing and is still
committed to quality and value for
our customers. We define quality
as the ability to consistently
satisfy expectations (or
reliability) and we define value
as the optimum balance between
features, price, durability and
life cycle costs (or cost
effectiveness).
All
customers expect the highest
quality at the best price, but we
believe in giving them more ---
quality and price, plus high
reliability with low operating
costs. We start with cleverly
engineered, practical designs and
then use our years of
manufacturing experience and
production skills to build a
rugged product with proven
components; but, producing the
best also requires an experienced
and dedicated work force with a
strong commitment to quality and
customer satisfaction; and while
we are proud of our people, our
products and our heritage, our
business success is due to our
tradition of satisfying our
customers with quality, value and
friendly service.
Today,
Gillig is a solid company
with a strong reputation for
performance and customer
satisfaction. We have almost
700 employees with a passion for
performance and they build over 1,250
High Quality Gillig buses each
year. Our stability and financial
security is remarkable, our
on-time delivery unmatched, our
product’s performance and low
life-cycle-costs unbeatable, and
our after-sales support and
customer satisfaction is
considered the best.
Our
people are the BEST...
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Doing
work that matters (work worth
paying for)
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Expanding
our lead (we are only limited by
our imagination)
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Pursuing
our passion (at the speed of
thought)
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Creatively
moving from Excellence to Wow!
Tomorrow
Will Be Even Better --- More
Customers, With Higher Levels Of
Satisfaction! |
