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About the Company

IDEAL INDUSTRIES, INC. is a global, diversified family-owned business designing and manufacturing superior products for the electrical, power, and infrastructure industries. The 108-year-old company was founded in 1916 on the premise of forging ideal relationships with customers, employees, partners, and communities. The company has consistently grown and expanded under five generations of family ownership.

Company headquarters
Headquarters Location

1375 Park Avenue
Sycamore, IL 60178

Number of employees
Number Of Employees
0 - 1000
Company industry
Industry
Power & Electrification
Company website
Company Website
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Company ceo
CEO
Steve Henn

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Why is IDEAL Industries, Inc a Most Loved Workplace®?

We are helping power it. Power and electrification are essential to develop nations and ensure a green and modern future. Across the IDEAL family of brands our employees take part in powering buildings, supporting data centers that deliver loved social media experiences, and ensuring forklifts can move throughout warehouses aiding in our next e-commerce order. Our employees work in creating products that are necessary, valuable, and contribute to growing industries.

IDEAL was founded on a desire to create ideal relationships with our employees. Our values are a product of the culture and employees that live them. At IDEAL, we strive to live our values:
1. Act with Integrity
2. Excellence Starts with Accountability
3. Treat Everyone with Kindness and Respect.
4. Creating Value Drives Growth & Sustainability.
There are multiple generations in the workforce today and we embrace the challenge of evolving our values and culture to ensure they remain elements that our employees believe in and are proud to be a part of.

being the face of the company and demonstrating our values in all interactions, and with every communication. This includes:
• Acting with integrity.
• Demonstrating accountability.
• Treating everyone with kindness and respect.
• Creating value that drives growth and sustainability.
Our CEO has created a culture of continuous learning and improvement with high ethical standards and value-based decision making.

Fostering an environment of open communication where employees feel comfortable expressing their thoughts, concerns, and ideas to bring different perspectives to our culture and the work that we do. At IDEAL, we believe that inclusion is paramount and we provide opportunities for our employees to feel this sense of belonging through multi-functional team meetings, brainstorming sessions, and product development initiatives. By focusing on inclusion, we can ensure our employees’ ideas can continuously improve the company culture and the product innovations we bring to the market.

Our flat management structure sets the scene for heightened collaboration within our teams. It’s not about having a focused single role within the business but a shared knowledge working together to drive our strategy. As a team, we have a shared vision that we talk about everyday ensuring consistency throughout our business. We actively support each other, by lending a hand, having trust, and creating a safe working environment to share our ideas as well as celebrating our successes. Our collaboration focus is not just internal, we were founded on creating ideal relationships with our customers. By collaborating with customers, we ensure strong partnerships and shared success.

IDEAL is able to provide programs typically offered at larger companies like wellness screenings for employees and spouses, collaborating with teams via hybrid work arrangements, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, and charitable matching dollars while maintaining a smaller company culture where each person matters. This includes transparency about business related issues and opportunities for employees to directly share perspectives with leaders. The IDEAL Industries Foundation provides flexible opportunities for employees to serve and support the community.

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