The American-Marietta Corporation was an American industrial conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois, with numerous subsidiary companies across the Continental United States.
It specialized in construction materials and industrial chemicals such as synthetic resins, adhesives, paints, and varnishes[1] and was a former constituent of the Fortune 500.
It was originally founded in 1913 as the American Asphalt Paint Company by Grover M. Hermann of Callicoon, New York, and his business partner Charles Phelan,[2] who was killed in an automobile accident in 1931.
[3] In 1940, the company merged with the Marietta Paint and Color Company of Marietta, Ohio, to become American-Marietta, with Hermann as president and director.
[7] In 1959, American-Marietta acquired Superior Stone, an aggregates company founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.