Company profile

Future of Sherwin-Williams

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Rank
384
| Quantumrun Global 1000

The Sherwin-Williams Company is a US-based building material company. It is involved in manufacturing, distributing, and selling coatings, paints and other related products. Famous for its Sherwin-Williams Paints line, the company provides its products to commercial, industrial, retail, and professional customers in Europe and the United States. Sherwin-Williams acquired Valspar for $9 billion in March 2016. The company is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

Home Country:
Sector:
Industry:
Chemicals
Founded:
1866
Global employee count:
42550
Domestic employee count:
Number of domestic locations:

Financial Health

Revenue:
$11856000000 USD
3y average revenue:
$11441666667 USD
Operating expenses:
$4159000000 USD
3y average expenses:
$3965333333 USD
Funds in reserve:
$889793000 USD
Market country
Revenue from country
0.85

Asset Performance

  1. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Paint stores group
    Product/Service revenue
    7790157000
  2. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Consumer group
    Product/Service revenue
    1584413000
  3. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Global finishes
    Product/Service revenue
    1889106000

Innovation assets and Pipeline

Global brand rank:
406
Investment into R&D:
$58041 USD
Total patents held:
340
Number of patents field last year:
5

All company data collected from its 2016 annual report and other public sources. The accuracy of this data and the conclusions derived from them depend on this publicly accessible data. If a data point listed above is discovered to be inaccurate, Quantumrun will make the necessary corrections to this live page. 

DISRUPTION VULNERABILITY

Belonging to the chemicals sector means this company will be affected directly and indirectly by a number of disruptive opportunities and challenges over the coming decades. While described in detail within Quantumrun’s special reports, these disruptive trends can be summarized along the following broad points:

*First off, artificial intelligence (AI) systems will discover new thousands of new compounds faster than humans that can, compounds that can be applied to everything from creating new makeup to cleaning agents to more effective medicines.
*This automated process of chemical compound discovery will accelerate once AI systems are integrated with mature quantum computers by the late 2020s, allowing these AI systems will compute ever more massive amounts of data.
*As the Silent and Boomer generations enter deep into their senior years by the late 2020s, this combined demographic (30-40 per cent of the global population) will represent a significant financial strain on the health systems of developed nations. This crisis will encourage these nations to fast-track the testing and approval process for new drugs that may improve the overall physical and mental health of patients so that they can lead more independent lives outside of the health care system. The chemical industry will partner with the pharmaceutical industry to address this market need.

COMPANY’S FUTURE PROSPECTS

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