The company’s Paints segment offers architectural paint products, which include interior and exterior paints, stains, primers, varnishes, and specialty decorative products, such as enamels, aerosols, and faux finishes, used primarily in the do-it-yourself market.
It manufactures and distributes automotive refinish paints under the brand names Valspar, De Beer, and House of Kolor.
This segment also supplies aerosol spray paints for automotive distributors and automotive supply retailers under the brand names Plasti-Kote, Tempo, and Mr.
Spray.
In addition, it manufactures and distributes high performance floor paints for commercial and industrial applications.
This segment serves large automotive supply retailers through home centers, mass merchants, hardware wholesalers, and independent dealers.
Valspar’s Coatings segment offers industrial and packaging coatings products.
Industrial coatings product line includes various decorative and protective coatings for metal, wood, plastic, and glass, primarily for sale to original equipment manufacturer customers in North America, South America, Australia, Europe, and Asia.
Its product line also consists of fillers, primers, stains, and topcoats used by customers in various manufacturing industries, including building products, transportation, appliances, automotive parts, furniture, agricultural equipment, construction equipment, and metal fabrication.
Packaging coatings product line includes coatings for both interior and exterior use in rigid packaging containers, principally food containers and beverage cans for global customers, as well as produces coatings for aerosol and paint cans, bottle crowns for glass and plastic packaging, and glass bottle closures.
The company was founded in 1806 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
