The previous week Pagenaud, a native
of France, raced to victory in the Toyota
Grand Prix of Long Beach, also while carrying the PPG colors. He now has captured two victories and two second-place
finishes for Team Penske in the first four
races of the 2016 season. His sizzling
pace has put him at the top of the series’
driver point standings in just his second
season with Team Penske.
Pagenaud’s car is the latest of Team
Penske’s cars to wear a PPG livery. PPG
has been a longtime major sponsor of
Team Penske, with an overall business relationship extending more than 30 years.
The association dates back to PPG’s involvement in automobile racing and
sponsorship of the PPG Cup from 1979
to 1999. In 2009, PPG assisted Team
Penske in the conversion of its state-of-the-art race car painting facility in
Mooresville, North Carolina, to the PPG
ENVIROBASE High Performance waterborne coatings system. Pagenaud’s car
features a gleaming blue-and-white PPG
water-based finish, and, like other PPG-sponsored Team Penske cars, it prominently displays the PPG logo.
“It’s exciting for us to see Team Penske
and Simon Pagenaud do so well on the
race course,” said John Outcalt, PPG vice
president, global automotive refinish.
“We’ve had a strong relationship with
Penske Racing for several decades, and
that’s based on a mutual commitment to
deliver exceptional performance and exceptional products. Neither Penske nor
PPG will settle for anything less.”
AkzoNobel’s Visualizer
Paints New Digital Dawn
for Consumers
The ability to experience and enjoy color
has taken on a new digital dimension following the latest launch of AkzoNobel’s
innovative Visualizer app.
Designed to make decorating easier
and more inspiring, the new version of
the multi-award-winning app includes
a range of exciting features to help consumers see, share and virtually paint in
their chosen colors – before anything is
actually applied to the walls.
First launched in 2014 and already
downloaded more than ten million times,
the Visualizer now includes enhanced
video capability and intuitive color picker
technology, as well as the ability to share
designs on social media.
“Color is the number one decision fac-
tor when consumers choose paint,” ex-
plained David Menko, global marketing
director at AkzoNobel Decorative Paints.
“Selecting the right color can be an
exciting yet overwhelming chal-
lenge. The new features in the
Visualizer offer a fun and easy
way for people to find the essen-
tial color that makes their living spaces
more inspiring, while making the whole
experience more social at the same time.”
Research shows that 30 percent of
consumers struggle to visualize what
