General Paints is proud to announce the launch of its highly anticipated paint range, Surface Protect, the newest addition to the Colourtrend range. The
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As a child, Rachel O Connor played hide-and-seek with her sisters in the paints warehouse run by the family business, General Paints Group. Her grandfather, Ronan, set up the company behind Colourtrend paint in a former famine workhouse in Celbridge, Co Kildare, in 1953, handing over the reins to O Connor s father, Kevin, in 1985.
But when the Irish economy and housing market imploded in 2008, it didn t take long for the gloss to come off paint sales which had plunged by a third by 2011. O Connor - then in her early 20s - knew life at one of Ireland s homegrown success stories could be far from glossy.