Valvoline Instant Oil Change ("VIOC"), Valvoline Great Canadian Oil Change and Valvoline Heavy Duty once again partnered with Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in 2022. Each year since 2009, we have raised funds through customer, team member, corporate office staff, and franchisee donations. This year we raised a record $1,110,324 for 92 member children’s hospitals across the U.S. and Canada. With 1,000 of our retail stores participating, we were able to surpass our $1M goal. By surpassing the $1M milestone, we joined Children’s Miracle Network’s Miracle Million Club.

Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals advances the health of 10 million kids across the U.S. and Canada each year by funding critical life-saving treatments and health care services, along with innovative research, vital pediatric medical equipment and financial assistance for families that could not otherwise afford healthcare services. Our long-standing partnership is an annual point of pride for our team members as we continue to make a positive impact on the lives of so many deserving children.

Workplace talent development remains a key component of Valvoline’s success, and we continue to not only create advancement opportunities for team members but prepare our associates for success when open positions arise. Valvoline internal hiring metrics continue to demonstrate the positive impacts our efforts have on the careers of our associates and the benefits we enjoy as a company through employee retention.

We have committed significant resources in developing our digital learning platform, which includes custom functionality unique in our industry. Our platform provides new VIOC employees 270 hours of training that is generally completed within the first 60 days of employment and another 225 hours of training in the next 140 days. Due in part to our training program, we are proud to report that 100 percent of our service center manager, area manager, and market manager promotions were attained by team members who have advanced in VIOC after starting in hourly positions.

Valvoline also received 2022 BEST Award winner recognition from the Association for Talent Development. The BEST Awards recognize organizations that demonstrate enterprise-wide success as a result of employee talent development.

VIOC created the Hands On Assistance (HOA) program to help our associates facing financial challenges in the aftermath of a natural disaster or an unforeseen personal hardship. HOA relies primarily on individual donations from employees and support from Valvoline, in the form of a $.50 per $1.00 matching campaign, to ensure the long-term financial viability of the program.

Through the generosity of our team members, we were able to make a number of grants totaling over $200,000 in short-term financial assistance in 2022. The number of grants more than doubled in 2022, due in part to pandemic-related personal strains and a more accessible electronic application platform we launched last year.