In this era of giant paint manufacturers, Norton & Son is a rare find. Located just outside of New York City in Bayonne, NJ, Norton & Son has remained a successful independent manufacturer when others its size have been acquired by larger corporations looking to expand their share in the market.
There is no elaborate corporate board running this mid-size paint business. Norton & Son, as its name implies, is a family-owned business-one that has been handed down from generation to generation...to generation. Today, a third generation of Nortons is at the reigns, ready to take the company into the new millennium.
In the Beginning Norton & Son was started by Ed Norton in 1945 when he decided to spend his family's savings on a two-story building in Jersey City, NJ where he could manufacture paint. His son, Edward F. Norton, Jr., soon signed on. At the time, business was slow until opportunity knocked.
Left high and dry by a supplier, Sears Roebuck, one of the biggest retailers in the U.S., needed to find a paint producer to fill a void in its paint supply. Norton & Son operated around the clock to fulfill
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