Milestones Icon: Hunter Douglas

Hunter Douglas’ flagship Window Fashions Division in Broomfield has been producing custom window coverings in North America for a quarter century.

What began in 1986 as a 40,000-square- foot facility on Alter Street sold one product: the Duette honeycomb shade. Since then, the company has managed to grow from a roster of 52 employees to 800 people in a 14.6-acre complex and business park.

The 600,000-square-foot facility produces thousands of custom window fashions each year that are exported to 38 countries around the world.

Hunter Douglas was founded in Germany when Henry Sonnenberg developed a machine tool distribution business. He established a…