Gregg Gaskins: Multi-Unit Franchise Innovator
Gaskins: ” Technology has played a significant role in our business environment. First and foremost, it allows us to communicate with our customers much more often and in a more cost-effective manner while providing relevant information to make their lives a little easier. At Express oil Change & Service Center, we now have a method [...]
Express Oil Change’s Change A Life Campaign to Benefit Children’s of Alabama
(Birmingham, Ala.)–Can getting your oil changed help cure cancer? During the month of April it can, with the help of Birmingham-based Express Oil Change & Service Center’s Change-A-Life Campaign. Throughout the month of April, the quick-service car care franchise will donate $1 from every oil change in all of its 35 Birmingham area locations to [...]
Express Oil Acquires Tire Engineers
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Express Oil Change & Service Center, a Birmingham-based auto service chain with 195 locations in 12 states, has acquired Birmingham-based Tire Engineers, the companies announced. The terms of the deal that married the two home-grown auto service chains were not disclosed. Tire Engineers, a third-generation, family-owned business, has seven locations. Ricky Brooks, CEO of [...]
Smooth landing: A jointly owned franchise keeps two pilots flying high
When Eastern airlines went bankrupt in the early 1990s, John Grassia and David Smith lost their jobs. The two pilots began flying for other carriers, dreaming of the day they could retire and ease out of the cockpit and into their La-Z-Boys. But over the following two decades, they watched as the airline industry struggled [...]
Franchises with a Philanthropic Twist
Many businesses get involved in charity work, and franchise companies are no exception. Express Oil Change’s primary philanthropic focus is supporting Children’s of Alabama. Each September, Express Oil Change donates $1 for every oil change performed to the art therapy program at the Alabama Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children’s of Alabama. [...]
Express Oil Change fights hunger, participates in Alabama-Auburn Food Fight
(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.)—Each year, the rivalry between University of Alabama and Auburn University grows. Since 1994, the schools have fueled the fire by going head to head in the annual Alabama-Auburn Food Fight, which motivates fans across the state to support their individual school by contributing to each university’s respective food drive to see who can [...]
Express Oil Change’s Change-A-Life Campaign to Benefit Children’s of Alabama
BIRMINGHAM (August 10, 2012) - Can getting an oil change help cure childhood cancer? Throughout September, with the help of Express Oil Change and Service Center, it can.Starting Sept. 1, Express Oil Change will donate $1 to Children’s of Alabama for every oil change performed in one of their 35 participating Birmingham-area locations. All proceeds will benefit [...]
Express Oil Change Reopens in Tuscaloosa After Devastating Tornado
The Express Oil Change & Service Center at 604 15th St. E., Tuscaloosa, is scheduled to re-open this morning at 7:30 a.m. The franchise oil-change center was destroyed in the April 27, 2011, tornado. Its owner, John Carney, said the 15 months since the storm were a major challenge to the rebuilding of his business. [...]
Express Oil Change Debuts in Indiana
Growing Automotive Services Chain Opens First of Many Locations Planned For Indiana July 17, 2012 // Franchising.com // Dyer, Ind. – The state’s first Express Oil Change & Service Center will open its doors at 1339 Joliet Street in Dyer on Sat., July 21. Munster resident Nancy Johnson will open the new automotive services business, which will service all [...]
New Express Oil Change in Orlando, FL
ORLANDO, Fla. – Retired pilots David Smith, 68, and John Grassia, 65, met 25 years ago while working for the same company. And even though both remain passionate about flying, the pair has recognized a steady and growing marketplace for automotive services in the Sunshine State. As a result, they opened the first Express Oil Change & [...]