About Us

Ojai Oil Company is a California Corporation incorporated on June 4th, 1900 with 25 original stockholders each contributing $14,000.

The first 50 years were involved in oil field investments, with well and royalty interests in Montana, Texas, Wyoming, Canada, and of course, California. Oil prices below $2 per barrel in the 1960's brought a sense of urgency to the Board of Directors to guide the Company into other ventures. Sine then, this Company has expanded in oil production, land, office buildings, car washes, shopping centers, communication towers, and self storage facilities. Today, the Company has mostly evolved in to a commercial real estate company mostly focused in self storage.

Since 1910, there have been 9 company presidents with the company mostly managed by the late Charles F. Off and his family. Today, there are still four members of this family involved in the day to day operations of the Company. Ojai Oil Company manages, with a corporate staff of ten, approximately 70 persons involved in the self storage business and other property management tasks.

Today, the public company has approximately 280,000 shares outstanding and has issued dividends for over 85 years. The Company is listed over the counter with the symbol OJOC.pk and has a board of directors of 9 members.

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