ELITE PRO PAINTING 383 Williams Court Avon, IN 317-668-0210 www.EliteProPainting.com
From left to right: Production Manager Logan Williams, Sales Manager Joel Sackett, General Manager John Francis and Owner Andy Danforth Writer / Jamie Hergott Photographer / Amy Payne
Andy Danforth, owner of Elite Pro Painting in Avon, started his business in 2008 with family members and friends, and says he and his staff will soon paint their tenthousandth home.
which he learned a few valuable lessons, Danforth worked for his dad at a pallet company. He founded Elite Pro Painting twelve years ago as a local, family-owned, professional painting company that offers interior and exterior painting in the central Indiana area.
Over the course of his year in the pallet shop, Danforth spoke with his longtime best friend, who had worked at the same job for fifteen years. Once he heard what Danforth was doing, he dropped everything to help, and he’s now Elite Pro’s Danforth says the truth of how his business general manager. started is actually somewhat embarrassing. “We’re really proud of that,” Danforth says. “If you look at our company overall online, the reviews are great. When it’s hard to find the bad, that says a lot.”
“I actually worked for a competitor for a while, and I learned what not to do when it comes to running a painting company,” he says. “I saw something that could be improved upon, so we started a paint company to do just that.” After leaving the painting company at
“Our first year was really hard,” Danforth says. “In fact, the first eight years we didn’t see our families much. We just poured everything into it. I would change that a little bit if I could go back, but at the same time, I think that’s why we’re here today.” As a business owner, Danforth’s business philosophy has shifted over time. At the SEPTEMBER 2020
start, his focus was heavily on financial gains. “The focus was always that we wanted that boat, we wanted that pool, or whatever it was,” Danforth says. “We never got those things, but five years ago we changed our focus. We began to understand the servant attitude. If we make people’s lives better, it’s more beneficial for everyone. And that’s
