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          Business View Magazine
        
        
          JAC Products Inc.
        
        
          
            A world-class leader in roof racks and cargo management systems
          
        
        
          Decades ago, if you wanted to take some extra luggage or
        
        
          other bulky items along on a car trip, you only had a few
        
        
          choices in terms of the type of cargo roof rack you could
        
        
          utilize. Some ancient models were made of wooden slats
        
        
          attached to a steel frame; others were simply a couple
        
        
          of cross bars fastened to the car roof by suction cups, or
        
        
          a combination of straps and clips. But even a quick look
        
        
          at today’s automobiles, trucks, and SUVs would reveal a
        
        
          veritable revolution in the design and application of the
        
        
          modern roof rack, showing just how far this value-added,
        
        
          automotive accessory has evolved over the last several
        
        
          years.
        
        
          Today, roof racks and automotive racking systems are
        
        
          technologically complex, innovative in their fabrication
        
        
          and production, and according to Jeff Cavalier, Engineer-
        
        
          ing Manager for JAC products, one of the top five aesthet-
        
        
          ic considerations that new SUV buyers list as important
        
        
          when looking for their next vehicle purchase. No longer a
        
        
          clunky afterthought, the modern roof rack is “a piece of
        
        
          jewelry on that roof,” says Cavalier.
        
        
          JAC Products, Inc. was founded in 1967, and today is a
        
        
          leading designer and manufacturer of automotive roof
        
        
          racks and cargo management systems, supplying the