Benner-Nawman, Inc. was established in 1925 by Gus Benner and Rollie Nawman in the San Francisco Bay Area. During World War II the company earned a triple-A rating as a supplier to the U.S. Government. They were incorporated in 1946 and continued to expand their base of customers to include companies such as IBM, Western Electric, Campbell Soup, and Cutter Laboratories just to name a few.

In 1969, Benner-Nawman moved to Arizona and set-up their distribution operations in the town of Wickenburg located 60 miles outside of Phoenix. Benner-Nawman expanded into other major product lines that included specialty hand tools for the telecom and electrical industry, low-voltage pre-wire service boxes for housing telephone protectors and cable TV connections and their major product line of innovative portable rebar cutters and benders for the construction industry.

Since 1925, their corporate outlook remained the same, providing quality products engineered with intelligence and imagination. their products can be found in major construction wholesale, electrical wholesale, and telecommunication wholesale distributors throughout the USA. and in many foreign countries.  Benner-Nawman is a closely held corporation and the management is now run by the third generation of the original founders.