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- Name
- Wooster Brush Company, The
- Wholesale
- Merchant Wholesalers - Nondurable Goods
- Manufacturing
- Miscellaneous Manufacturing
- Trading names
- Wooster Brush Wooster Brush Co
- Brands
- Company makes approximately 2,000 products sold around the world
- Founded
- 1851
Wooster,Ohio
- Number of employees
- 500 persons 2022
- Predecessors
- Founders
- Adam Foss 1851-1879
- Owners
- Walter R. Foss
1938–1949 - Walter D. Foss
1879–1938 - Allan K. Rodd
1998–2010 - Stanley R. Welty
1949–1969 - Woodrow J. Zook
1975–1985 - George J. Schwartz
1876–1876 - Jack W. Lester
1969–1975 - Stanley R. Welty, Jr.
1985–1998 - Ben Maibach
2020 - William (Bill) S. Fagert
2010–2020
- Key Persons
- Mike Palmer, Human Resource Manager
- Reno
- 4950 Joule St., Reno, 89505, Nevada
- Headquarters
- 604 Madison Ave., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
1909
- 604 Madison Ave., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
- Old Location
- 56 S. Market St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
1909
- 56 S. Market St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
- Old Location
- 18 S. Market St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
1870–1879
- 18 S. Market St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
- Plant 2
- 1654 Old Mansfield Rd., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
- Old Location
- 400 S. Buckeye St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
- Original location
- 212 E. Liberty St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
1851–1880
- 212 E. Liberty St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
- Old Location
- 35 S. Market St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
1870–1879
- 35 S. Market St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
Established in 1851, Wooster Brush Company is one of the oldest manufacturers of paint applicators in the country. The company's founder, Adam Foss, traveled from Pennsylvania to Ohio at the age of 18 with his brother Samuel. Together they "began producing bristle paintbrushes by hand in a small, two-story building in downtown Wooster, then sold the brushes door to door through the state." [1]
In 1876, Adam's son, Walter D. Foss, and son-in-law, George J. Schwartz, purchased the business and established it as Wooster Brush Works. Under their leadership, the company continued to grow. After a fire destroyed their original plant on East Liberty Street, they moved operations to 35 South Market Street, and within a decade they had expanded to occupy the entire building. After adding on to that structure, the company purchased land on Madison Avenue in 1909 in order to build a much larger factory, a building that has continued to expand in the years since.
The company continued to innovate over the years. In 1937, the Wooster Brush Company introduced the first angled brush for reaching corners close to ceilings and trim. When trade embargoes during World War II stopped shipments of hog bristles from reaching the US from northern Europe, the company introduced the first nylon brushes instead. In addition to product innovations, the company became one of the first in the country to create a profit-sharing plan for employees. In 2016, the Wooster Brush Company celebrated 165 years of business and continues to thrive today.
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Slogans
- "If it's worth painting, it's worth a Wooster brush."
- ↑ Wooster Brush Company Marks Milestone: 150th anniversary, Wooster, Ohio: Daily Record, 4 Jan 2001, p. Business section