Those who use Smith & Rodger products benefit from the experience and expertise we have accrued during the last one hundred and thirty years. We are passionate about maintaining the exceptional quality that only traditional manufacturing skills can achieve, an enthusiasm shared by our customers.

John Hutcheson Smith was a man with a good practical knowledge of paint and painting, and in the early days of the firm did much commercial travelling. He liked getting around and during his holidays visited as far north as Spitzbergen, ranging down through Europe, the Mediterranean and much of Africa. He was a lover of music, played the organ and was a regular attender at Orchestral concerts. His home was in Bearsden and he was an Elder of the Tron Free Church in Glasgow.

Daniel Lusk Rodger founded the firm with John Smith. Mr. Rodger was born at Mount Pleasant, Greenock in 1852. Soon afterwards the family removed to Glasgow, then to Rutherglen. From here Mr. Rodger had his daily walk through Glasgow Green to work. Mr. Smith was the sterner of the two partners... if anything had been done wrong, it was thought wiser to confess to Mr. Rodger. Before coming into a room, Mr. Rodger would make a noise to announce his arrival, in case the employee was not doing his work. Handing out bonus envelopes in the early 1920's he used to explain that this was to enable them to share in the firm's prosperity, and to hope it would be wisely used, and never in a public house. Apart from his high business integrity, Mr. D. L. Rodger was a remarkable man; for over fifty years he carried on in Rutherglen a unique and successful Christian evangelistic work, doing much pioneering there, especially amongst young people. In recognition of this at the Royal Burgh's Octo-centenary celebrations in 1926, Rutherglen conferred on him the 'freedom of the Burgh'. He died in 1930.