CONGRATULATIONS ON 75 YEARS!

“We want to make this the last place you ever work, and the way we try to do that is with the culture of the company,” Sauer says.

Bolt’s positive culture is the key to impressive staff retention. There is a spirit of collaboration across the organization and employees are always happy to share their knowledge. If someone at any branch has a question about a product or needs options for meeting a customer’s needs, they can reach out to Bolt’s network and quickly have multiple people across the region chime in to help. The team is invested in the success of employees and management rewards that. There is a clear road to advancement, and management enthusiastically promotes from within whenever possible to continue to build on and preserve the deep experience in the company.

The culture of respect and support comes from the top. Management highlights employee accomplishments and celebrates birthdays and hire-date anniversaries to show how valued the team is to the company. In this relatively flat organization, titles are formalities and senior management can be seen hopping onto a forklift to help unload product or hauling boxes when a branch moves locations.

“None of us look at any job as above or below anybody. Everyone just does what needs to be done,” says Sauer.

Doing what needs to be done has made The Bolt Supply House an important part of the communities in which it operates. Through the ups and downs of the past 75 years, the company has outgrown its namesake to be a one-stop shop for industrial supplies.