Prior to his departure, Biesanz worked with company leadership to create an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, making the employees the owners of the company. The company is now 100% employee owned.
Biesanz purchased the company in 1979 from the Winona Tool Company.
Highlights from Scott’s tenure as owner include:
- Adding an in-house crankshaft grinding wheel shaping and sizing department in 1981
- Building a 10,000 square foot building to house the company in 1985. This building was expanded in 1995 and is still in use today
- Goodson became the exclusive distributor of Sunnen Automotive Products throughout the United States in 2001. The distribution area was expanded to include Canada in 2019
- In 2004, Goodson bought Mach-B Grinding Wheels Shaping & Resizing to expand its abrasive production capabilities
- Goodson bought the Seat Grinding & Equipment Supplies division of Kwik-Way in 2014 and is now the product line’s exclusive manufacturer
- Goodson was named the exclusive distributor of Radiac Automotive Abrasives in 2015
- Adding an in-house coated abrasive belt conversion division – Abrasive Industrial Supplies – in 2017