{"id":128,"date":"2012-07-09T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2012\/07\/company-snapshot-the-sherwin-williams-co\/"},"modified":"2012-07-09T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T18:21:00","slug":"company-snapshot-the-sherwin-williams-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2012\/07\/company-snapshot-the-sherwin-williams-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Snapshot: The Sherwin-Williams Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong><br \/>\n101 W Prospect Ave<br \/>\nCleveland, OH 44115-1075<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telephone:<\/strong><br \/>\n216 566-2000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Internet Homepage:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherwin-williams.com\/\">http:\/\/www.sherwin-williams.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Stores:<\/strong><br \/>\n3,455<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Annual Sales:<\/strong><br \/>\n$4,779,826,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Executive:<\/strong><br \/>\nChristopher M. Connor- Chairman and CEO<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1866, one year after the end of the Civil War, the seeds for The Sherwin-Williams Co. were sown in Cleveland, Ohio as founders Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams joined forces with a number of associates.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years The Sherwin-Williams Co. has not only been the leading paints specialty retailer in Chain Store Guide\u2019s database of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/c-89-hardware-home-center.aspx?mgs1=76b78tr153\">Home Center Operators&amp; Hardware Chains<\/a>, Sherwin-Williams operates by far the greatest number of retail locations across the entire span of the database with 3,455 stores and growing.\u00a0 Despite the harshness of the current recession on our economy and on retailing overall, Sherwin-Williams has consistently managed to open new locations each and every year, including last year\u2019s net addition of sixty stores.<\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade prior to the current recession, Sherwin-Williams went on a paint retailer and manufacturer buying spree.\u00a0 Acquisitions included former Chain Store Guide Index of Leading Paint Retailers, M.A.B. Paints (M.A. Bruder &amp; Sons), Duron Paint and most recently Columbia Paint &amp; Coatings.\u00a0 In fact, in 1996 the company completed sixteen strategic acquisitions during a twenty one month span.\u00a0 These included both retailers and manufacturers capped off by the acquisition of Pratt &amp; Lambert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1866, one year after the end of the Civil War, the seeds for The Sherwin-Williams Co. were sown in Cleveland, Ohio as founders Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams joined forces with a number of associates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6,15],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-hardware","tag-csg-old","tag-snapshot","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}