Ziebart
Ziebart World Headquarters in Troy, Michigan
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| Industry | automotive aftermarket |
| Founded | Detroit, Michigan (1959) |
| Founder | Kurt Ziebart |
| Headquarters | Troy, Michigan, United States |
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Area served
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Global |
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Key people
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Thomas E. Wolfe, President and CEO |
| Services | rustproofing and automobile detailing |
| Revenue | $150 million (2015) world-wide dealer sales |
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Number of employees
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90 |
| Website | http://www.ziebart.com/ |
Ziebart International Corporation is a privately owned corporation based in Troy, Michigan, and is the worldwide franchisor of the Ziebart brand of automotive aftermarket stores.
Services offered by Ziebart stores include rustproofing, paint sealant, paint protection film, automobile detailing, window tinting; and the installation of various aftermarket accessories.
Kurt Ziebart was the inventor of the rustproofing process for automobiles.
He was born on July 27, 1920 in West Prussia, Germany, before it became part of Poland. He served in the German Army during World War II.
In 1953, Kurt Ziebart became an auto mechanic before coming to the United States. He landed in Detroit, where he worked at a Packard factory outlet that housed several auto dealerships.
It was while working in a Detroit body shop that Ziebart saw the effects of rust and began looking for a way to protect cars against it. That is when he developed the process to rust proof automobiles.
The process is often called "Ziebart-ing" or "Ziebart-ed", the generic term for rustproofing .
In 1959, he started the Ziebart Process Company and opened the first shop bearing the proprietary Ziebart name at 16135 Harper Avenue in Detroit.
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