Resene Paints has been a success story for three generations of Wellington's Nightingale family. Tony Nightingale, son of founder Ted, was posthumously inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of ...

Resene was started in 1946 by an Eastbourne builder, Ted Nightingale, who needed an alkali resistant paint to cover his concrete buildings. There was nothing available at the time, so, in typical Kiwi ...