Coatings World - July 2015

Berger Paints
India Ltd.
Kolkata, India
www.bergerpaints.com
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PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1923

REVENUE: $847 million MARKETS SERVED

• Decorative coatings • Automotive coatings • Industrial coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES

Abhijit Roy, managing director; Srijit Dasgupta, director – finance and CFO;

Aniruddha Sen, senior VP and company secretary; Tapan Dhar, senior general manager.

Berger Paints India Limited was founded in 1923 and is a leader in the Indian paints market. The company manufac- tures and markets a range of decorative and industrial paint products and has operations throughout India with seven manufacturing facilities, more than 135 depots, approximately 3,000 employees and more than 15,000 dealers.

The company recently announced plans to open a plant in the Russian town of Nevinnomysk in the Stavropol region. News outlets have reported that Berger officials are finalizing a site for the factory at Nevinnomysk, for which four to six hectares of land are required. The company plans to invest at least $5 million in the project and create approximately 50 jobs.

Chugoku Marine Paints manufactures paint for ship, indus- trial and containers uses, as well as adhesives. The company recorded sales of $862.807 million for 2014. The company was established in 1917 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company offers paints for large vessels, pleasure boats and yachts, marine containers, fishing boats, and fishnets; protective paints for anti-corrosive protection; paints for building materials and woodworking; functional paints; heavy duty paints; paints for plastics; and caulking material for railways. It is also involved in the sale of painting related equipment; management and contract work for coating; inspection of surface treatment and coating; and other activities.

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1917

REVENUE: $862.807 million MARKETS SERVED

• Marine coatings • Industrial coatings
• Container coatings • Adhesives

KEY EXECUTIVES

Tetsuo Yamazumi, chairman; Masataka Uetake, president and CEO.

23Chugoku Marine Paints Tokyo, Japan
www.cmp.co.jp

DuluxGroup consists of Paints Australia, Australia’s lead- ing manufacturer of premium branded decorative paints, texture, protective and wood care coatings products; Paints New Zealand, New Zealand’s leading manufacturer of premium branded decorative paints, texture, protective and wood care coatings products; Selleys Yates, which is Australia and New Zealand’s leading manufacturer of home improvement and garden care products; and Offshore and Other segments which comprises Australia and New Zealand’s leading manufacturer of powder and industrial coatings. DuluxGroup announced two supply chain investments: the construction of a new state-of-the-art factory in Melbourne to make water-based decorative paints and the establishment of a new, purpose-built distribution centre in Sydney, replacing two existing distribution centers.

Materis Paints SAS is a manufacturer of construction ma- terials including decorative and industrial paints for the professional and consumer markets. Materis has four businesses: admixtures (Chryso), aluminates (Kerneos), mortars (Parex Group) and paints (Materis Paints). The business is a unit of Materis SA, which is 76 percent owned by French investment firm Wendel. Materis Paints is Europe’s fourth-largest manufacturer of decorative paint and manufactures, sells and distributes a wide range of decorative paint and technical products to professionals and consumers. 66 percent of its activity is in France, 28 percent in the rest of Europe and eight percent in emerging economies. Materis Paints has strong local brands in the top three of each of its markets (Tollens and Zolpan in France, Robbialac in Portugal, Max Meyer in Italy, Colorin in Argentina, and Claessens in Switzerland).