- Industry: Home Improvement Retail
- Founded: 1866
- Country: United States
- CEO: Christopher Connor
- Website: www.sherwin.com
Profile
The Sherwin-Williams Company is engaged in
the development, manufacture, distribution and sale of paint, coatings
and related products to professional, industrial, commercial and retail
customers primarily in North and South America, with additional
operations in the Caribbean region, Europe and Asia. It has three
segments: Paint Stores Group, Consumer Group and Global Finishes Group.
The
Paint Stores Group
consisted of 3,390 company-operated specialty paint stores in the United
States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, St.
Maarten and Jamaica at December 31, 2010. The Consumer Group develops,
manufactures and distributes a range of paint, coatings and related
products to third party customers in the United States and Canada and
the Paint Stores Group. The Global Finishes Group develops, licenses,
manufactures, distributes and sells a range of architectural paint and
coatings, industrial and marine, automotive finishes and refinish
products.