At first, Sherwin-Williams continued the practice of selling ingredients that the customer then mixed together, but the company soon began to develop a reliable ready-mixed paint. in 1873 which became the company's first factory for the manufacture of paste paints, oil colors, and putty. Sherwin's group bought the Standard Oil Co. First year sales for the new company reached $422,390.97.īy 1872 the business was relocated to 126 Superior and 44 Long streets. opened later that year at 118 Superior St. Williams formed a new partnership, Sherwin, Williams, & Co., to take over Truman Dunham's old retail operations and Sherwin, Williams, & Co. The partnership was dissolved in February 1870. This development represented a shift in the focus of the original partnership to manufacturing. opened a new factory to produce linseed oil, which formed the base of most paints. As a partner in the firm, young Sherwin soon learned all he could about the paint business. was a prosperous importer and dealer of home decorating and furnishing supplies including paints and varnishes, oils and pigments, brushes and window glass, among other related products. In July 1866 Sherwin invested $2,000, which he managed to save while working as a bookkeeper, in the Truman Dunham & Co. Sherwin, who came to Cleveland from Vermont in 1860, worked as a bookkeeper at Freeman & Kellogg, a dry goods store, before becoming bookkeeper for the wholesale grocer George Sprague & Co. Sales of $5.408 billion ranked Sherwin-Williams 333rd among the Fortune 500 largest U.S.
and Canada consisted of manufacturing operations in 5 countries and 59 licenses in 38 countries. By 2005 the company's operations included over 2,600 paint stores, 139 automotive paint branches, and strong multi-brand paint franchises in architectural, industrial, and special purpose coatings. The SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO., a pioneer in the development of the paint industry, was established in Cleveland in 1866 by Henry A.
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