83. WEG Tintas
Guaramirim, SC - Brazil
www.weg.net
PRIVATE COMPANY; YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1983
REVENUE: $106,080,000
MARKETS SERVED
Powder coatings; Marine coatings; Industrial coatings; Protective coatings; Automotive
refinish coatings; Varnishes
KEY EXECUTIVE
Reinaldo Richter, director and superintendent.
WEG Group’s Coatings Unit provides solutions in liquid industrial and anticorrosive coatings, automotive refin- ish coatings, powder coatings and electro insulating varnishes and resins. WEG Coatings is a leader in the Brazilian market
in powder coatings and electro insulating varnishes and resins and
is a leader in industrial and anticorrosive coatings in Latin America.
84. Boero Group
Genoa, Italy
www.gruppoboero.it
PUBLIC COMPANY; YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1831
REVENUE: $100,000,000
MARKETS SERVED
Decorative coatings; Marine coatings, Yacht coatings
KEY EXECUTIVES
Giorgio Rupnik, CEO and executive director; Giampaolo Iacone, director of administration,
finance & control and director; Pietro Bianchini, operations director.
Boero Group is Italy’s paint and coatings leader in the markets it serves. Architectural and decorative paint brands in the firm’s portfolio include Boero Colori;
Rover Attiva; and Grandi Superfici. Yacht brands include
Boero Yacht Paint; Veneziani Yachting and Attiva Marine. The
marine category offers the Boat brand. Boero Group operates
out of four hubs: Genoa (headquarters and Research Centre),
Rivalta Scrivia (production site) and Tortona (logistics hub),
thus covering the entire country in addition to a French subsidiary dedicated to the Yachting sector; this allows optimization
of the production and distribution processes, in a logic of high
competitiveness and speed of response to the needs of individual customers. CW