{"id":4632,"date":"2014-12-25T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=4632"},"modified":"2014-12-25T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T01:00:09","slug":"company-snapshot-the-sherwin-williams-co-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2014\/12\/company-snapshot-the-sherwin-williams-co-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Snapshot: The Sherwin-Williams Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sherwin-Williams Reaches a Landmark<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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 \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.sherwin-williams.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year founded:<\/strong><br \/>\n1866<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Stores:<\/strong><br \/>\n4,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Annual Sales:<\/strong><br \/>\n$6,002,143,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Executive:<\/strong><br \/>\nChristopher M. Connor- Chairman and CEO<br \/>\nRobert J. Davisson- President (Paint Stores Group)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Sherwin-Williams Co. proudly traces its origins back to 1866, shortly after the Civil war came to an end.\u00a0 In fact, the company\u2019s founders and namesakes, Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams, began the company with several associates from what was to become the Paint Stores Group.<\/p>\n<p>Sherwin-Williams has seemingly never lost sight of its goal to grow continuously, often regardless of current economic landscapes.\u00a0 Through the company\u2019s many years of existence, corporate management has embarked on expansion through the acquisitions of regional competitors and strong independents.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the company sought to add enormous growth through a giant acquisition.\u00a0 The target company was Mexican-based Comex and its considerable properties in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.\u00a0 The U.S. and Canadian part of the deal went through easily.\u00a0 Acquisition of the Mexican properties was twice blocked by Mexico\u2019s equivalent of our Federal Trade Commission.\u00a0 Then Sherwin-Williams withdrew its offer for the Mexican side of the deal as per the original contractual agreement, as it was bringing its newly acquired U.S. and Canadian properties into the fold.<\/p>\n<p>Sherwin-Williams however, views its mandate for expansion as per using any means available to prudently grow the company.\u00a0 Aside from carefully researched acquisitions, the company proudly seeks to open new locations in communities in which the company deems there is a real need for its store services.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s latest store opening came from this latter source.\u00a0 Interestingly, the company\u2019s most recent opening brought the current store count to a landmark four thousand locations as noted above. \u00a0While an impressive number, this is not a company which rests on its laurels.\u00a0 While store number five thousand is likely not even on the corporate back burner, store number 4,100 will likely open when the company sees a compelling need for that opening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherwin-Williams Reaches a Landmark &nbsp; Address: 101 W Prospect Ave Cleveland, OH 44115-1075 Telephone: 216 566-2000 Internet Homepage: http:\/\/www.sherwin-williams.com Year founded: 1866 Total Stores: 4,000 Total Annual Sales: $6,002,143,000 Senior Executive: Christopher M. Connor- Chairman and CEO Robert J. Davisson- President (Paint Stores Group) &nbsp; The Sherwin-Williams Co. proudly traces its origins back to 1866,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2014\/12\/company-snapshot-the-sherwin-williams-co-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Company Snapshot: The Sherwin-Williams Co.<\/span><\/a><\/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":[15],"class_list":["post-4632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-hardware","tag-snapshot","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632","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=4632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}