Behr

Appears on

• Top 6 Paint Brands of All Time

  Currently #2 · score 0

Reviews

Log in to leave a review.

Barks

Log in to bark.

Similar places

• Sherwin-Williams

  Sherwin-Williams was founded in 1866 in Cleveland, Ohio by Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams, and the company is widely credited with introducing one of the first ready-mixed paints in 1873, sparing painters from having to hand-mix pigments and oils on site before every job. The company grew into the largest paint and coatings manufacturer in the world by revenue, and its distinctive "Cover the Earth" logo, depicting a can of paint literally pouring over a globe, has served as one of the longest continuously used trademarks in American corporate branding since its introduction in 1905. Sherwin-Williams built an extensive network of company-owned retail paint stores across the United States, a distribution strategy setting it apart from paint brands sold primarily through third-party home improvement retailers, giving the company direct control over sales and professional contractor relationships. Sherwin-Williams's combination of its pioneering role introducing ready-mixed paint and its unusual company-owned retail store distribution model has made it one of the most commercially dominant paint brands in the world.

  BattleCompare
• Benjamin Moore

  Benjamin Moore was founded in 1883 in Brooklyn, New York, and the company built a long-standing reputation for premium-positioned paint, particularly popular among professional painters, interior designers, and architects for its color consistency and finish quality. The company has been owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway since 2000, one of several well-known consumer brands the conglomerate has acquired and continued operating under its original name and management structure. Benjamin Moore has historically distributed its paint primarily through a network of independently owned local paint and hardware retailers rather than large national home improvement chains, a distribution strategy that has helped maintain the brand's premium, design-oriented positioning. Benjamin Moore's combination of its premium reputation among professional designers and painters and its ownership under Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has made it one of the most distinctively positioned paint brands in the industry.

  BattleCompare
• Valspar

  Valspar traces its origins to 1806 in Boston, making it one of the oldest paint and coatings companies in American history, and the company grew over two centuries into a major national paint brand before being acquired by Sherwin-Williams in 2017 for approximately $11.3 billion. The company built significant distribution through a long-standing retail partnership with Lowe's, similar in structure to Behr's exclusive relationship with Home Depot, giving Valspar a comparably strong nationwide retail footprint through one of the two largest home improvement chains. Valspar's acquisition by Sherwin-Williams was one of the largest deals in the history of the paint and coatings industry, consolidating two major American paint manufacturers under one parent company while Valspar has continued operating its Lowe's-focused retail brand. Valspar's combination of its origins as one of the oldest paint companies in American history and its landmark $11.3 billion acquisition by Sherwin-Williams has made it one of the most historically significant paint brands in the industry.

  BattleCompare
• Glidden

  Glidden traces its origins to 1875 in Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Francis Glidden, and the company grew into one of the most recognized mainstream paint brands in American households throughout the 20th century, widely known for its longtime advertising slogan touting reliable, everyday quality. The brand has changed corporate ownership several times over the decades, passing through SCM Corporation, Imperial Chemical Industries, and Dutch conglomerate Akzo Nobel, before its North American operations were ultimately sold to PPG Industries in 2013. Glidden has historically positioned itself as a solidly reliable, moderately priced paint brand aimed at everyday homeowners rather than competing at the premium end of the market occupied by brands like Benjamin Moore, maintaining broad distribution through major retailers. Glidden's combination of its nearly 150-year history as one of America's most recognized household paint names and its multiple corporate ownership transitions has made it one of the most enduringly familiar paint brands in the country.

  BattleCompare
• Dutch Boy

  Dutch Boy was introduced in 1907 as a paint brand of the National Lead Company, taking its name and iconic logo, a young boy in Dutch overalls and a cap, from an illustration originally created for the brand's early advertising campaigns. The Dutch Boy mascot became one of the most recognized branding images in the American paint industry for much of the 20th century, and the company was historically among the largest manufacturers of lead-based paint before health and safety concerns led to lead paint being banned for residential use in the United States in 1978. The brand's ownership has changed hands multiple times over the decades and is currently owned by Sherwin-Williams, which continues marketing Dutch Boy as a distinct, value-oriented retail paint brand sold through major home improvement and hardware retailers. Dutch Boy's combination of its historically iconic mascot branding and its complicated legacy tied to the lead paint era of American manufacturing has made it one of the most historically notable paint brands in the country.

  BattleCompare

More in Home

• Miele

  Miele was founded in 1899 in Germany by Carl Miele and Reinhard Zinkann, and the company built its long-term brand identity around premium build quality and durability, marketing its vacuum cleaners and broader appliance lineup with an internal engineering standard designed to withstand decades of household use. The company has remained privately family-owned for more than 125 years, still run in part by descendants of its two founding families, an unusually sustained ownership structure for a company competing in the global premium appliance market against much larger publicly traded conglomerates. Miele's vacuum cleaners have consistently commanded some of the highest price points in the consumer vacuum market, a position the company has maintained by emphasizing German engineering standards and offering unusually long warranty periods relative to mass-market competitors. Miele's combination of its more than 125-year continuous family ownership and its sustained premium positioning built around German engineering durability has made it one of the most enduringly prestigious vacuum cleaner brands in the industry.

• iRobot (Roomba)

  iRobot was founded in 1990 by MIT roboticists Colin Angle, Helen Greiner, and Rodney Brooks, and the company launched the original Roomba robotic vacuum in 2002, one of the first robotic vacuum cleaners to achieve genuine mainstream consumer adoption rather than remaining a niche technology product. The Roomba's autonomous navigation technology improved substantially across successive generations, evolving from simple random-bounce movement patterns in earlier models to sophisticated room-mapping and object-avoidance systems in later versions equipped with cameras and advanced sensors. Amazon announced an agreement to acquire iRobot in 2022 for approximately $1.7 billion, though the deal was ultimately abandoned in 2024 after facing significant regulatory antitrust scrutiny in the European Union, leaving iRobot to continue operating independently amid a more competitive robotic vacuum market than it had faced at its 2002 launch. iRobot's combination of its pioneering mainstream robotic vacuum technology and its high-profile, ultimately abandoned Amazon acquisition attempt has made it one of the most closely watched companies in the modern home robotics industry.

• Hoover

  Hoover traces its origins to 1908, when its first vacuum cleaner, invented by janitor James Murray Spangler and commercialized by leather goods manufacturer William Hoover, became so dominant in the early vacuum market that "hoover" became a widely used generic verb for vacuuming in British English. The company pioneered door-to-door vacuum sales and in-home demonstrations as its primary early sales strategy, a model that helped introduce vacuum cleaners to American households during a period when the product itself was still a novel and unfamiliar technology to most consumers. Hoover's brand ownership has changed hands multiple times over the decades, and the company's fortunes became a notable cautionary business school case study following a disastrous 1992 UK promotion offering free airline tickets with vacuum purchases, which cost the company tens of millions of dollars after being overwhelmed by consumer demand. Hoover's combination of its foundational role in the early vacuum cleaner industry, including lending its name as a generic verb, and its later high-profile promotional business failure has made it one of the most historically significant, if cautionary, brands in vacuum cleaner history.

• Bissell

  Bissell was founded in 1876 in Grand Rapids, Michigan by Melville Bissell, who invented a mechanical carpet sweeper reportedly to help clean up sawdust and packing material in his own china shop, making Bissell one of the oldest continuously operating vacuum and floor-care companies in the United States. The company has remained privately and continuously family-owned for nearly 150 years, a rarity among major American appliance brands of its age and scale, and Bissell built a particular reputation for carpet-cleaning machines alongside its core vacuum product lines. Bissell has become known for significant charitable giving tied to its business, including its long-running BISSELL Pet Foundation supporting animal shelters and pet adoption, an unusual and sustained corporate philanthropy focus specifically tied to pet-related products like its pet-hair-focused vacuum lines. Bissell's combination of its nearly 150-year continuous family ownership and its sustained pet-focused corporate philanthropy has made it one of the most historically enduring vacuum cleaner brands in American history.

• Shark

  Shark is a brand owned by SharkNinja, a company that has built its broader strategy around directly competing with premium vacuum brands like Dyson at meaningfully lower price points while matching much of the same suction performance and design innovation. The company gained significant attention for a series of high-profile patent lawsuits with Dyson throughout the 2010s, in which Dyson accused Shark of copying specific vacuum design and technology patents, litigation that underscored just how directly Shark had positioned itself as a value-focused alternative to Dyson specifically. Shark's product line expanded significantly beyond traditional upright and stick vacuums into robot vacuums and its own line of hair-styling tools, reflecting SharkNinja's broader strategy of applying the same value-positioned innovation approach across multiple home and personal care product categories. Shark's combination of its direct value-positioned rivalry with Dyson and its expansion into a broader home appliance product family has made it one of the most commercially significant vacuum brands in the modern value-tier market.