to supply raw materials for glassmaking – the precursor to PPG’s chemicals businesses. A year later, PPG started building its coatings business by acquiring an interest in Wisconsin-based Patton Paint Co. which proved a good fit for the company because paint and glass products typically reach...
Here’s another one of those neat stories about a family and their classic cars. As most of you know DP Classics specializes in restoring and modernizing vehicles primarily from General Motors. […] The Chevy Corvette has always been America’s sports car. Over the last several decades I’ve...
There are a lot of cars on the street, but there’s only one “Street Machine of the Year.” In 2009, it’s a stunning 1962 Corvette, painted with products from PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG), that wowed the crowd and got the unanimous approval of judges at t
Serving the Phoenix, Arizona valley area for over twenty-five years. We are one of the largest distributors of automotive paint and related supplies in North America, serving the Phoenix, Arizona valley area for over twenty-five years with locations in Phoenix and Chandler. Exceptional sales, ser...
Eventually, paint companies started using aluminum flakes. Color in the 1940s In the first part of the decade, OEMs funneled their resources to the military during WWII. Later, a vaster option of colors for car buyers emerged. For the first time, buyers could find cars with several differen...
In China specifically, metallic and solid versions of the shade are consumers’ most-preferred pick for luxury, compact, sub-compact, mini car, SUV and mini-van car types. Blue is also gaining popularity among mini cars. “PPG’s leading position in paint and color forecasting allows us to...
The launch of PPGVisualizIDsoftware and the PPGDigiMatchcamera follow the PPG MOONWALK® system, which is the company’s award-winning, automated paint mixing system that launched in 2019. Additional components of thePPG LINQsy...
retailer in the southeastern United States mainly catering to paint contractors. PPG had flirted with exiting from the architectural paint sector, but elected not only to stay in the business but to expand its operations in this area. Architectural paints had great potential for growth, and ...
high fixed cost that company-owned stores bring, they might be able to bring more velocity through whether it's other paint products or other building products in general. So, that is the big issue where a JV may be able to help us from that velocity through your high fixed cost stores...
Well, certainly, on the ad spending, as you see the decline, you’re also getting near the end of the paint season by the time the quarter is going to be over. So that is on a decline. That’s typical, though. So that’s not really that much of a difference. We do bucket our...