Coatings World - March 2013

Homeowners can find help on tough paint projects with details on How to Paint a Front Door, How to Paint a Wood Gate, How to Paint a Wood Deck and How to Paint Wood Siding. And everyone can learn secrets from the pros with topics like Painting Tips and Tricks and How to Choose the Right Paint. For larger painting projects, many people opt to hire a painting contractor. The How to Choose a Painting Contractor video offers a good checklist of questions to ask.

All 17 Dunn-Edwards How-To Paint videos are available on YouTube and the Dunn-Edwards website.

trained 10,000 people so far,” added
Wenzinger. “There’s tremendous demand
for these courses. Our distributors find
them very valuable.”
Courses are conducted by PPG
Automotive Refinish leadership and lead-
ing consultants in the automotive refin-
ish industry and cover a variety of critical
topics for the paint body and equipment
distributor including finance,
marketing, operations, selling
skills, counter person develop-
ment, commercial product busi-
ness development and more.

PPG Distributor
Development Program
Reaches 10,000-Student
Milestone

PPG Automotive Refinish announced that 10,000 distributor partners have now participated in PPG’s Distributor Business Development Program courses. The milestone was reached on December 4, 2012 at PPG’s Excellence in Distribution Management (EDM) class held in Orlando, Florida, at the Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel.

The EDM class is one element of a comprehensive curriculum PPG has created to support its independent paint, body and equipment distributors by providing them with the practical and professional skills required to successfully operate a productive and profitable business.

“We spend a lot of time and effort on
distributor training at PPG Automotive
Refinish; it’s a critical component of
our offerings,” said Bob Wenzinger, PPG
distributor program director. “We want
every one of our distributors to have
healthy, successful businesses. Obviously
that means providing them with great
PPG products to sell—and we do that,
but it also means giving them industry-
leading training so they can outpace the
competition and build and operate a
thriving business.”
The “student” enrollment of the dis-
tributor training program includes dis-
tributorship owners, managers, sales staff
and the other key personnel involved in
running a business.