We will strive to be the distributor of choice to our present and future customers and the company our employees want to come to work for each day.  We will challenge each other and learn from each other.  We will listen, discuss, disagree, solve our problems, and move forward without politics or fear.  We will embrace change for the growth opportunity it brings.

When in doubt, we will reach out to the resources within.  We will be guided by our conscience and always do the “right thing,” asking ourselves, “is this ethical, legal, and ‘would I want this done to me?’”

We will stay focused, determined, committed, and we will avoid complacency at all costs.

History 

1975 – Peter Hinman becomes leader of GIC

1978 – GIC is purchased by Jack Doherty

1978-82 – Peter Hinman remains manager

1982 – Frank Granara purchases General Insulation Company

1985 – Auburn, MA (later relocated to Millbury, MA) opens for business

1986 – Lewiston, ME and Hartford, CT warehouse open

1987 – Orlando, FL branch opens in anticipation of Universal Studios theme park

1991 – Frank projects an improving Texas economy subsequently opening a warehouse in Dallas, TX

1992 – GIC opens first Pennsylvania location in King of Prussia

1993 – GIC heads back south and opens a location in Atlanta, Georgia in preparation of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games

1994 – GIC purchases the assets of Snowbelt Insulation thereby opening a GIC location in Albany, NY

1995 – Auburn branch relocates to Millbury, MA and absorbs Hartford, CT branch

1996 – Tampa, Florida branch opens

1997 – New warehouse opens in Ft Myers, Florida

1998 – GIC heads back to Texas to open a warehouse in Houston; GIC purchases Northeast Specialty from the Brzek family, which becomes GIC’s first fabrication center (located in Lawrence, MA)

1999 – GIC purchases the assets of Tru-Temp in upstate NY which become the GIC warehouses in Rochester, Syracuse, and Buffalo; GIC also purchases assets from Marty Learned which forms Erie, PA warehouse

2000 – GIC purchases stock of Western Industrial Ceramics thereby opening the first west coast warehouse in San Francisco, CA; Other branch openings include Camden, NJ and Austin, TX

2001 – Branch openings in Chicago, IL and Long Island City, NY as well as a fabrication shop in Tampa, FL

2002 – Branch opening in Pittsburg, PA

2004 – Branch opening in Miami, FL

2007 – GIC buys the assets of Alloyd Insulation thereby opening locations in Dayton, OH, Columbus, OH and Indianapolis, IN; Branch opening in the Washington, DC area in Alexandria, VA

2008 – Branch opening in Harlingen, TX; GIC purchases the assets of Clark Insulation from Beth Clark thereby opening a warehouse in Cleveland, OH

2009 – GIC heads to the Great Pacific Northwest as the location in Seattle, WA opens; branch opening in St. Louis, MO; warehouse in Bangor, ME opens to help the Lewiston, ME branch over northern Maine; second branch opening in the Washington, DC area—this time in Hyattsville, MD; branch opening in Las Vegas, NV

2010 – Branch opening in Jacksonville, FL

2011 – Nashville, TN warehouse begins operations

International

2004 – Branch opening in Halifax, NS

2008 – Branch opening in Toronto, ON

2011 – Branch opening in Shanghai, China

2011 – GIC sales representative relocates to Argentina