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Oil-Dri Corporation of America
Oil-Dri is a leader in developing, manufacturing and marketing sorbent minerals. With mines located throughout the USA, products are specially processed for retail/wholesale and business-to-business markets including cat litter, agricultural carriers, animal feed ingredients, vegetable oil filters and liquid waste absorbents.
Purpose
Our approach is centered on collaboration, communication, and transparency. We believe in the value of an open and accessible corporate structure and culture that starts at the top. Our President & CEO knows almost all of our teammates by name and is passionate about his open-door policy. While we have numerous teams with varying roles and responsibilities, we are aware of the value that each one adds to our success and no team works in a silo. Each quarter we develop a corporate newsletter that is sent to all of our team members. We also host an annual Global Sales Meeting to unite our team face to face.
Vision
As a family-controlled and family-operated organization, each decision we make is done with future generations in mind. Like Aesop’s fable, “The Tortoise and the Hare,” we focus on the long-term goal. We don’t make any decisions that will compromise the company’s vision for the future. Since the beginning, our corporate team has consisted of many members from the same family. In fact, at one point, sixty-five families were represented by two or more team members at Oil-Dri. This is a true endorsement of our close-knit community and a proud point of difference. Whether you have been here for one year or thirty years, you are considered part of the family.
Mission
Creating Value From Sorbent Minerals
Our tight-knit, inclusive culture focuses on Integrity, Approach, and Vision. When you join Oil-Dri, you aren’t just joining a company, but a family. Teammates are empowered to continuously look for ways to improve processes and eliminate waste, all the while working to foster an atmosphere that is welcoming. Throughout the year, there are many ways teammates are recognized for their representations of our company’s values and philosophies.
Our tight-knit, inclusive culture focuses on Integrity, Approach, and Vision. When you join Oil-Dri, you aren’t just joining a company, but a family. Teammates are empowered to continuously look for ways to improve processes and eliminate waste, all the while working to foster an atmosphere that is welcoming. Throughout the year, there are many ways teammates are recognized for their representations of our company’s values and philosophies.
Additional Culture Details
What makes Oil-Dri different is the emphasis we put on honesty, ethics, diversity and compassion. Everything we do, we do with integrity, while keeping those values at the forefront of our minds. We support healthy lifestyles by offsetting gym membership fees and implementing a no-tobacco policy. We also encourage a strong work–life balance that enables team members to build a thriving career and still be present for their children’s sporting events and dinner with their families.
Values
- WE CARE
- Work-Life Balance
Ethics
Communication/Customer focus/Continuous improvement
Accountability
Respect
Excellence
Oil-Dri’s culture and the objectives that we focus on in managing our business are based on our “WE CARE” values. “WE CARE” is an acronym for remembering our core values, which is the moral standard that we endeavor to apply to our teammates, customers, vendors, and other stakeholders. We continuously work to reinforce these values through leading by example, training, and rewarding positive behaviors. We use “WE CARE” values as a moral compass to constantly strive for continuous improvement. These values are embedded into everything we do and are reflected in our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct, formal policies and procedures, annual training, and a strong governance structure. Our WE CARE values are also the basis of our formal teammate recognition process.
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