The Sherwin-Williams Company announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. Compared to the same period in 2014, consolidated net sales increased $83.7 million, or 3.5%, to $2.45 billion in the quarter due ...
Each month, North Coast Research surveys a large sample of paint retailers throughout the U.S. to get a sense for current business trends. Please note that of the three primary architectural coatings channels (paint stores, home centers ...
Tags: Coatings Industry, paint stores, home centers, Construction
Clariant will show its support for greater sustainability across the industrial, decorative and automotive applications with new products and advanced solutions for the global paint and coatings community at the European Coatings Show 2015 ...
Tags: professional paint stores, Energy-and Cost-Saving Solutions
Following an announcement in June this year, AkzoNobel has agreed to the sale of 67 of its 72 German decorative paints stores to five independent wholesale distributors. Financial details were not disclosed. As a result of the ...
Tags: decoration, paints
Color in home decor may be all the rage, but Canadians are stuck on neutrals. That’s the finding of a countrywide survey conducted by leading brand CIL paint of Canadian paint habits over the last year. The survey, which polled a ...
Tags: CIL paint, Construction Coatings
With the April 2013 acquisition of AkzoNobel's North American architectural coatings business by PPG Industries, customers can now purchase PPG Protective and Marine Coatings (PMC) products at Dulux Paint stores across Canada. This is the ...
Tags: Construction, coaitng
The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), a leading advocate and comprehensive resource for the profession of product development and innovation, has named The Sherwin-Williams Paint Stores Group as one its 2013 Outstanding ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Rust-Oleum Corporation has acquired certain assets of XIM Products, Inc., a producer and marketer of specialty primers and coatings based in Westlake, Ohio. XIM offers a range of primers offering excellent adhesion to difficult-to-paint ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, paint
Miller Paint Company unveiled their newest interior paint color collection called COLOREVOLUTION. Inspired by the artistic eye of landscape artist and Miller Paint founder, Ernest Miller, the COLOREVOLUTION collection is the most advanced ...
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Clariant has launched the first compact color dispenser to allow simultaneous dispensing of up to six colors at a time. Clariant’s machine is one of two new innovative prototypes offering performance and productivity benefits to ...
Tags: color dispenser, paints industry, paints
PPG Industries has finalized the acquisition of the North American architectural coatings business of Akzo Nobel N.V., Amsterdam, in a deal valued at $1.05 billion. “We are pleased to have successfully completed this acquisition, ...
Tags: Sikkens architectural, wood products, PPG
London-based theatre design consultancy Charcoalblue is a new sponsor of The Off West End Theatre Awards (Offies). Creative thinkers Charcoalblue is sponsoring the Award for Most Welcoming Theatre (Central, North, South East, East, North ...
Tags: consultancy Charcoalblue, sponsor, Offies
Kelly-Moore Paint Company, Inc. has opened two new stores in the Bay Area – San Francisco and Lafayette. The Lafayette store is located at 3707 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, CA 94549. The newest San Francisco store is located at 701 ...
Tags: Kelly-Moore Paint, Bay Area, Paints
With its proposed $1 billion acquisition of Akzo's North American house paint business PPG Industries, Inc. has found a use for the $900 million in cash proceeds from its soon to be completed commodity chemicals divestiture. Importantly, ...
Tags: Housing Recovery, PPG Industries, Construction, Akzo
Tinseltown's biggest star–The Hollywood Sign–has been restored to its full beauty once again thanks to a historic"face-lift"from Sherwin-Williams and The Hollywood Sign Trust.Over the nine-week refurbishment,the Sign's nine ...