63. Whitford Worldwide
Elverson, PA/USA
www.whitfordww.com
PRIVATE COMPANY; YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1969
REVENUE: $202.5 million
MARKETS SERVED
Consumer coatings (Interior and Exterior); Industrial (Automotive, Offshore, Medical, etc.)
KEY EXECUTIVES
David P. Willis, Jr., Chariman; Anne S. Willis, CEO; Brian Willis, Tom Sheehan, Anthony
Weir (Board members).
Whitford was founded in 1969 to promote special “matrix” release coatings to the industrial mar- ket. Soon after, Whitford moved into the expanding nonstick markets of cookware, and bakeware. A few years
after opening, Whitford went interna- tional with an office/
factory in England. Today Whitford has ten factories in 8 key
countries, with sales offices in many more. The majority of
Whitford’s business is outside the USA. In 1999, Whitford purchased HP Polymers of Guelph, Canada, producers of special
resins. In 2004, Whitford acquired Polymeric Systems, Inc.,
inventors of the epoxy putty stick, then Alpha Coatings, leader
in automotive weather-seal coatings. In 2009, Whitford bought
AkzoNobel Nonstick Coatings. Whitford is known for the
many new coatings it develops and markets (five in the past
two years alone).
64. Ace Paint
Oakbrook, IL, USA
www.acehardware.com
PUBLIC COMPANY; YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1926
REVENUE: $199 million
MARKETS SERVED: Architectural coatings
KEY EXECUTIVES
John S. Venhuizen, chief executive officer and president; William M. Guzik, chief financial
officer, chief risk officer and executive vice president; J. Thomas Glenn, president of
East Tennessee and Northwest Georgia; Kerilyn M. Johnson, vice president, general
counsel and secretary; Lori L. Bossmann, executive vice president of supply chain and
retail support.
For its first 50 years in business, Ace was privately held. In 1976, Ace became a retailer-owned cooperative. Each store is independently owned and operated by local entrepreneurs. Today, Ace is the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the hardware industry in terms of wholesale and retail
sales and strength of the brand. Ace’s 4,600 stores in all 50
states and more than 60 countries generate annual retail sales
of approximately $12 billion. Headquartered in Oak Brook,
IL, Ace currently operates 14 distribution centers in the U.S.
and one in Shanghai, China. Ace employs approximately 4,500
corporate team members worldwide and has four regional offices, located in Raleigh, NC; Atlanta, GA; Denver, CO; and
Woodridge, Illinois.
65. Tnemec Company Inc.
Kansas City, MO/USA
www.tnemec.com
PRIVATE COMPANY; YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1921
REVENUE: $118,000 million
MARKETS SERVED
Water tank coatings; Water and wastewater coatings; Industrial coatings; Architectural
coatings; Processing and manufacturing coatings
KE Y EXECUTIVES
Chase Bean, CEO and president; Steve Eiserer, CFO.
Since 1921, Tnemec Company Inc. has been a leading manufac- turer of high-performance architectural and industrial coatings that protect a wide range of substrates and enhance aesthetics.
From water tanks and treatment plants, to manufacturing plants,
industrial facilities and specialty architectural buildings, Tnemec
coatings can be found protecting virtually all types of structures
and buildings. Tnemec operates two manufacturing facilities in the
U.S. in North Kansas City, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland. The
company recently launched new Pure Polyamide Epoxy Coatings,
EnduraHeat Coatings for Highheat Application, Series 118 Uni-Bond Mastic, Series 256 Excella Thane, and Series 208 Epoxoprime
MVT. The company currently has 260 employees.
66. Kapci Coatings
Port Said, Eqypt
www.kapci.com
PRIVATE COMPANY; YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1985
REVENUE: $185,000 million
MARKETS SERVED
Automotive refinish; Decorative paints; Wood finishes
KE Y EXECUTIVES
Mohamed Mohamed Ahmed El-Sayed, CEO; Amr Mohamed El-Sayed, commercial director;
Lotfy Hassan El-Badrawy, R&D director.
The company was founded in 1985 under the name Kantara Paints and Chemical Industries specializing in car refinish paints. In 2002 the company opened its current headquarters
located in Port Said and changed its name to Kapci Coatings. In 2017,
Kapci generated revenue of $185 million. Car refinishes accounted
for 58 percent of sales; architectural and decorative coatings 24 percent; wood finishes accounted for
15 percent, and inks accounted
for three percent. Kapci Coatings’
production facility is located on
210,000 square meters of space
where the company has an annual
production capacity of roughly
80,000 tons. It has recently expanded its warehouse space. The
new location, specifically for
emulsion paints, will be nearly
62,000 square meters.
