Business Successes of Dan Huish

Since founding his first company in 1985, Dan Huish has seen considerable success in multiple business industries. Below, find just a sampling of Dan Huish’s notable accomplishments...

Dan Huish is the former CEO of Huish Detergents, Inc. Dan Huish headed the company for twenty two years, until he sold it to a private capital company in 2007. At the point of sale, Huish Detergents was bringing in yearly revenues of over one billion dollars, and boasted a corporate office in Salt Lake City, as well as four large-scale manufacturing plants in Utah, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Texas. Dan Huish oversaw over 2,300 employees. A year after the business’ sale, Huish Detergents merged with Unilever, bringing Dan Huish’s innovative techniques to the second largest producer of detergents in the United States.

Dan Huish has won numerous awards for his work. Most notably, Dan Huish was featured in Private Label Magazine’s 2010 Hall of Fame. Huish Detergents, Inc, was presented the Salmon Award by Costco Wholesale, ranking them as one of the chain’s top vendors.

Dan Huish is the owner of Huish Outdoors, which manufactures and retails sporting goods, especially diving gear. So far, Dan Huish has acquired four companies under the heading of Huish Outdoors: Bare Sports, Atomic Aquatics, Stahlsac Dive Bags, and Zeagle Systems.

Dan Huish is also the owner of Wapika Ranch in Pinedale, WY. This ranching operation involves the raising of over a thousand head of top quality, fine beef each year.

Dan Huish is the owner of multiple patents. Over twelve of these patents govern the creation of certain types of detergent formulations, as well as processes of sulfonating methyl ester including neutralization, bleaching, and coating a finished MES Sulfonate. As the owner of Huish Outdoors, Dan Huish has multiple patents on SCUBA diving gear, as well.