OBITUARY: Frank Sinclair, 90; Built Small Paint Business into Major Regional Company
LOS ANGELES – Frank Sinclair, founder of Sinclair Paint Co., a major regional manufacturer of architectural coatings in California, died June 3 in Los Angeles. He was 90.
Mr. Sinclair led the expansion of a depression-era storefront business into a multimillion-dollar corporation, exploiting California’s building boom by focusing his company’s manufacturing and marketing efforts on the demands of professional painting contractors and decorators.