About Cosmos Enterprises, Inc.

The predecessor to Cosmos Enterprises, Inc. was organized in August 1960. Since our founding we have grown from a two person auto-body repair shop to a 20+ full service CNC machine shop.

In August 1960, Clint and Evelyn Grove began operations as Clint's Body Shop doing auto body repair. Clint worked in the shop and Evie in the office.

In 1971, the Groves sold one-half of their interest in the body shop to Mert Shuck and changed the name from Clint's Body Shop to CosMos which was an acronym for Clint owns some Mert owns some.

In 1973, Clint developed and patented a front wheel alignment system for 4 wheel drive vehicles called the CosMos Shim System. Over one million shims have been sold worldwide since then.

In 1975, Clint & Evie bought Mert's share of the business. Clint kept doing body work, but concentrated more on chassis repair. Clint and Evie renamed the business from CosMos to Cosmos Enterprises, Inc.

In 1988, Cosmos developed and patented a rear wheel alignment system to align the rear wheels of front wheel drive vehicles. As a result of this effort, Cosmos has worked closely with Northstar Manufacturing Co. of Minnetonka, MN to assist in their development work in the wheel alignment trouble shooting field.

In 1998, Clint retired and turned the reins over to his two sons Bill and Robert Grove. After working together for 4 years, the elder brother Bill decided he wanted to venture out on his own. Robert chose to include four key employees in the purchase of Bill's interest in the company: Purchaser Todd Lohse, Fabrication Foreman James Warde, Machine Shop Foreman David Bates and Controller Jessica Nelson.

Since forming this partnership, the company's revenues have grown to over twice the size with roughly the same number of employees as when they started.

Many other exciting things have happened along the way; too many to name. We hope you make Cosmos Enterprises, Inc a part of your history.

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Our Facility

Although a quality building and quality equipment does not make a quality job shop, it certainly helps with the day to day needs for quality production. Production issues like material flow, equipment layout, and shipping and receiving all add to the efficiency of producing your parts.

Our facility includes over 20,000 square feet of production area, 4000 square feet of office space, and 5700 square feet of warehouse storage. Well placed equipment, including real time SPC reporting stations, ensure efficient production of customer parts.

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Quality Policy

Cosmos Enterprises, Inc., provides services to a high standard for discerning customers. The nature of our activities places particular emphasis on experience, expertise, capability performance, safety, reliability and quality.

Our commitment is to provide product in a manner, which conforms to the specified requirements of our own standards, our customer's specifications, and all applicable regulatory authorities' requirements. In order to achieve this, it is our policy to establish and maintain an effective and efficient quality management system, planned and developed in conjunction with other management functions.

The system has been designed essentially to protect the customer from errors in manufacture and in doing so, protect the high reputation of Cosmos Enterprises, Inc. as a professional and efficient supplier, while complying with the requirements of outside inspection authorities. The determination of conformity of work to contractual and regulatory requirements is made on the basis of objective evidence. All employees including management, technical and production personnel are fully aware of and understand company objectives through an ongoing training and education program.

The following objectives are monitored and recorded monthly. Trend analysis is utilized in an effort to continually improve all aspects of customer satisfaction.

Cosmos controlled on-time delivery to our customers is measured by comparing shipped dates to promised dates with the goal being 98% or better.

Staff improvement is measured by comparing the number of certifications acquired to the number of certifications required with the goal being 95% or better.

The President is the company representative who ensures that these objectives are maintained.

Management shall regularly review the quality management system to ensure its continuing suitability and effectiveness. The results of all such reviews shall be submitted to the appropriate management personnel who shall have the responsibility for the implementation of any system change. Management is committed to continually improving the effectiveness of the quality management system.

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