OUR HISTORY WHY DUNN-EDWARDS MADE IN THE USA

DUNN-EDWARDS HISTORY

Established 1925

Dunn-Edwards has been the leading paint manufacturer in the Southwestern United States since 1925. We are committed to providing the superior products and services that our customers have come to expect.

Dunn-Edwards Paints: Our History

THE EARLY DAYS

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Frank “Buddy” Dunn founded the company in 1925, not as a paint maker but as a wallpaper store in Los Angeles. The business expanded as he added a line of paints, and later (with two employees) he began manufacturing his own paints in the backroom of the company’s second store.

 

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In 1938, he partnered with his friend Arthur C. Edwards, a former painting contractor and pigment salesman, to form the Dunn-Edwards Corporation. Sales immediately improved, and a business philosophy was born: “Make the finest line of paint and give the best service at fair prices.” It’s a philosophy that endures through this day.

 

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IMPORTANT MILESTONES

2020

The company launched their first eCommerce website for consumers; EXQUISITE, a revolutionary interior matte paint with Ceramic Technology, is launched

2018

Dunn-Edwards launches ENDURA Series, a high-performance, industrial Coatings Line.

2017

Dunn-Edwards merges with Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd. Learn more about Nippon Paint

 

2015

Dunn-Edwards celebrates its 90th year in business. Watch the video.

 

2013

Dunn-Edwards launches EVEREST®, an ultra-premium, Zero VOC paint that is self-priming.

2011

Dunn-Edwards opens the world’s first LEED® Gold-certified paint manufacturing facility in Phoenix, AZ. Watch the video.

2010

First to use RAVOC rating; a better way to quantify content of coatings

 

2008

The 100th store, located in Fullerton, CA opens

 

2000

Dunn-Edwards enters a cooperative venture to produce and distribute recycled latex paint

 

1995

Dunn-Edwards created SIERRA®, its first low odor, Zero VOC paint

 

1986

Dunn-Edwards enters the Las Vegas, NV market

1983

Dunn-Edwards is one of the first manufacturers to voluntarily replace ethylene glycol (EG) with propylene glycol, a safe, more environmentally friendly ingredient in our water-base paint

1979

Dunn-Edwards discontinues use of mercury biocides in latex paints, 11 years ahead of the partial ban by the EPA

1974

Dunn-Edwards expands its manufacturing in Arizona by opening the Tempe factory and store

 

1960

Main office expands and moves from downtown Los Angeles to Vernon

 

1956

Dunn-Edwards expands into Arizona and Northern California markets

 

1954

Dunn-Edwards discontinues last remaining lead-based paint, 24 years ahead of the ban by the Federal Government

 

1938

Arthur C. Edwards joins the company, which shortly becomes the Dunn-Edwards Corporation

 

1937

Los Angeles factory opens

 

1936

The company changes its name to Dunn’s, Inc.

 

1927

Company begins to sell paint products and becomes the Consolidated Wallpaper and Paint Corporation

 

1925

Dunn-Smith Company formed; soon becomes Consolidated Wallpaper Corporations, with its first store on Figueroa St., Los Angeles