AHOLA PAYROLL & HR SOLUTIONS

For 56 years, Ahola Payroll & HR Solutions has been dedicated to helping businesses stay in business.

“We like to say we help employers manage everything from hire to retire — from finding, attracting and onboarding employees, to helping manage them and appropriately track their time, compensation and benefits,” says Sonya Ahola, whose grandparents Chester and Rheta Ahola founded the company in 1967. Today, the firm’s services reach 2,300 clients in all 50 states, with the majority based locally in Ohio, managing more than $1.5 billion of payroll, and processing nearly 2 million payroll checks annually. In 2012, Ahola was awarded an Ohio Historical Marker that recognizes its place as the world’s longest continuously operating family-focused payroll provider.

Additionally, Ahola’s HR Consulting Division assists businesses by providing updated policies, helping develop employee handbooks and answering questions that crop up in the course of a business day.

As Sonya Ahola, along with her father Jeff Ahola, uncles Mark and Scott Ahola and aunt Marja Ahola, continue their family’s tradition, they appreciate the benefits of belonging to the Brecksville Chamber of Commerce.

“Our headquarters are here, so we want the city to have a spotlight shine on it and thrive,” Sonya Ahola says. “We’re proud to be chamber members because we enjoy helping businesses in our community that we frequent as residents — including the small, family-owned restaurants we eat out in and the medical offices we go to — succeed. By working together, [as the saying goes] ‘A rising tide lifts all boats.’” ahola.com