Sentry Group

SentrySafe is the flagship brand of the John D. Brush & Co. (d/b/a Sentry Group), a family-owned safe manufacturing company headquartered in Pittsford, New York, USA. Sentry Group manufactures and sells home, business, and gun safes. In addition to security, SentrySafe provides a wide variety of Underwriters Laboratories (UL) rated safes to protect valuables from both fire and water.

History

In 1930, John Brush, Sr. and his brother-in-law, Willard Punnett, opened a small shop for the manufacture of safes at 545 West Avenue in Rochester, New York. The Brush-Punnett Company was an early pioneer in the stamping (metalworking) of steel safes. After a long and arduous startup period that spanned the Great Depression and World War II, The Brush-Punnett Company made some early successes by selling safes to Vassar College for its dormitories and steel skids to Eastman Kodak.

In 1943, after purchasing his sister and brother’s-in-law interest, John Brush Sr. became the sole owner of the company. It was Mr. Brush's intent to pass the business onto his sons; John Jr., Richard, and Robert. John Brush Jr. joined the business in 1954 after serving active duty in the U.S. Army Air Corps, and graduating from St. Lawrence University (1950) and Harvard Business School. The company changed its name to the John D. Brush & Co. in 1955.