Company builds on original formula for success, expands sales in era of competitive challenges.
Do one thing. Do it well. it's a philosophy of doing business that's not strikingly original. But for the major regional architectural coatings manufacturer Duron Inc., it's an axiom that defines a company mission that has remained intact since the late Harry Feinberg, a paint chemist, became part-owner of a small paint-manufacturing company in Washington, D.C. some 50 years ago.
That company, which Mr. Feinberg later acquired in total and renamed Duron Inc., has never wavered from a single-minded focus on the professional painter. Mr. Feinberg, who had worked as technical director of a paint manufacturer in Baltimore, built his business around one overarching concept - that this focus on the professional painter could pay off handsomely for the company that did it well.