This acquisition marks Hunter Industries' first major foray into a market unrelated to irrigation or landscape products. On June 16, 2017, Hunter Industries acquired Dispensing Dynamics International from Kinderhook Industries. On August 13, 2019, Hunter Industries acquired Lumascape, an Australian company that specializes in architectural lighting, facade lighting, and high-output applications. In 2016, the Center for Executive Excellence (CEE) recognized Hunter Industries as one of twelve companies that excelled in promoting a successful business culture. An additional plant had been in operation in Cary, NC, from 1992 to 2009, but the plant was closed due to poor market conditions at the time. Manufacturing facilities are located in San Marcos, California, and Tijuana, Mexico, and the company also has overseas offices in China. The company's irrigation and landscape lighting products are used in a wide array of locations including sports stadiums, national landmarks, hotels, and city parks.

After being President and CEO for 19 years, Edwin Hunter retired in February 2013 and was succeeded by his son, Richard E. Hunter, to produce a compact landscape sprinkler called the 'PGP' (an acronym meaning 'professional gear-driven pop-up'), the first sprinkler to utilize 'matched-precipitation' regardless of the radii or arc.

The company was founded in 1981 by Edwin J. The company reports that it holds more than 250 product patents and 40 trademarks, and conducts business in 125 countries. Hunter produces pop-up gear-driven rotors, spray sprinklers, valves, controllers, central controllers, and weather sensors. Hunter Industries headquarters in San Marcos California

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