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Originally named Dorst Jewelry, the John Gray Company was established in
Cincinnati, OH in 1888. The company crafted fine jewelry, rings, sports
medals, trophies and loving cups. Dorst’s products were widely recognized for
their beauty, craftsmanship, quality, and value. As time passed the company’s
primary customers became retail jewelers, national fraternities and sororities,
and later businesses.
Through a series of succeeding owners, the Dorst Company experienced difficult
times. In 1983, ninety-five years after its founding, William and Douglas
Turnbull acquired the Dorst Company. In the following years the brothers turned
the company around by identifying and responding to customer needs. The changes
were so dramatic, that the Turnbull brothers renamed the business The John Gray
Awards Company. Because of its steady growth, the business was relocated from
the original building near downtown Cincinnati, to the expanded and updated
premises it occupies now.
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