Most Admired Companies of 2023: U-Haul International

50 companies have risen from the constantly evolving and ever-challenging business environment to earn the right to call themselves Arizona’s Most Admired Companies of 2023, including U-Haul International, Inc..

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“Most Admired Companies is the most comprehensive and prestigious annual corporate awards program in Arizona,” says Amy Lindsey, publisher of AZ Big Media, which publishes Az Business magazine and co-founded the Most Admired Companies program with the team from BestCompaniesAZ. “To be called a Most Admired Company, a business must demonstrate excellence in its leadership; corporate culture; innovation; customer relations; community engagement; and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and programs.”

Arizona’s Most Admired Companies will be recognized at a celebration dinner on Thursday, October 5, 2023 at Chateau Luxe in Phoenix. For sponsorship information, email Amy.Lindsey@azbigmedia.com. For information about the event honoring Arizona’s Most Admired Companies, email Lynette.Carrington@azbigmedia.com or click here. To buy tickets, click here.

U-Haul International, Inc.

Top Arizona executive: Joe Shoen, president, chairman and CEO

What it does: Storage services

Workplace culture: In the summer of 2021, U-Haul opened the Shoen Family Conference and Fitness Center, a 54,208-square-foot, multi-million dollar facility in Phoenix, providing team members free access to daily workouts (cardio, machine and free weight areas); basketball; classes like yoga, boxing, spin, dance, HIIT and pilates with professional instructors; on-site medical and dental services; and the use of locker rooms with showers and towel service.

Community impact: During Hunger Action Month in 2022, U-Haul hosted a donation drive at multiple company locations and packed 1,728 emergency food boxes at the St. Mary’s warehouse, while donating $15,000 to the organization as the sponsor of Go Orange Day.