Once again, CoatingsWorld brings the industry our Top Companies Report – the only truly global ranking of the top manufacturers of paints, coatings, adhesives and sealants. Our editorial staff has spent many hours researching the industry to provide you with the most accurate ranking of paint and coatings manufacturers operating in the global industry. Rankings are based on annual sales in U.S. dollars. For companies based outside the U.S., sales are translated into U.S. dollars using exchange rates from the company’s fiscal closing date. For privately held companies who choose not to disclose sales figures, our staff interviews different industry sources coupled with our own research to come up with an accurate estimate of annual sales. We profiled 80 companies in this report. All have sales of $100 million or more annually. Companies marked with an asterisk in the ranking on the following page represent Coatings World estimate. Bold companies are those making their first appearance as a Top Company.

The Top Companies Report is intended to provide our readers with a snapshot of the industry’s most influential players. We hope you will come away with a clearer insight into the future of this truly global and always evolving industry. If you are a paint, coatings, adhesives or sealants manufacturer with sales of $100 million or more for fiscal 2014 and would like to be included in our Top Companies Report, contact me and I will add your company to the online version. 

First Timers
• Snieka $144 million

Take-out Companies
• Chokwang (South Korea) insufficient sales
• Diamond Vogel (USA) insufficient sales
• NOF (France) insufficeint sales
• Quest Specialty Chemicals (USA) acquired by Valspar
• Tnemec (USA) insufficient sales
•  Whitford (USA) insufficient sales
• Yip’s Chemical (China) insufficient sales

2014 Top Companies
• 01 PPGl
• 02 AkzoNobel
• 03 Henkel
• 04 Sherwin-Williams
• 05 Valspar
• 06 RPM
• 07 Axalta
• 08 BASF
• 09 Kansai
• 10 Sika
• 11 3M
• 11 Asian Paints
• 13 Nippon
• 14 H.B. Fuller
• 15 Masco
• 16 Jotun
• 17 Hempel
• 18 KCC
• 19  DAW
• 19 Shawcor
• 21 Materis Paints S.A.S.
• 22 Dulux Group Ltd.
• 23 Chugoku Marine Paints
• 24 Berger Paints India Ltd.
• 25 Benjamin Moore
• 25 SK Kaken
• 27 Pintuco
• 28 Tikkurila Oyi
• 29 AB Wilh. Becker
• 30 Pidilite Industries Limited
• 31 Dai Nippon Toryo
• 32 Fujikura Kasei Co. Ltd.
• 33 Carpoly Chemical Group
• 34 Looser Holding AG
• 35 National Paints Factories Co.
• 36 Samhwa Paints Industrial
• 37 Noroo Paint Co. Ltd.
• 38 Lord Corporation
• 39 Betek Boya San. ve Tic. AS
• 40 Ennis-Flint
• 41 Nihon Toksuhu Toryo Co. Ltd.
• 42 Helios
• 43 Shanghai Coatings
• 43 Musashi Paint Co. Ltd.
• 45 Kunsul Chemical Industrial Co. Ltd.
• 46 Teknos Group Oy
• 47 Origin Electric
• 48 Dunn Edwards
• 49 TOA Group
• 50 Kelly-Moore
• 51 Tiger Coatings GmbH & Co. KG
• 52 Flugger Group
• 53 CIN – Corporação Industrial do Norte, SA
• 54 Yasar
• 55 JW Ostendorf
• 56 Taiho Paint
• 57 Shinto
• 58 Rock Paint
• 59 Pacific Paint Boysen
• 60 Tambour
• 61 Grebe Group
• 62 Kapci Coatings
• 63 Tohpe
• 64 Ace Paint
• 65 Kikusui Chemical
• 66 WEG Tintas
• 67 Cloverdale Paint
• 68 Sniezka Woj.
• 69 Industrias Titan
• 70 Kayalar Kimya
• 71 Pachin
• 72 Renner Saylerlack
• 73 Russian Coatings
• 74 Empils
• 75 Tnemec
• 76 Natoco
• 77 Atomix
• 77 ICA Group
• 79 Asahipen
• 80 Boero Group
• 81 MIDO Coatings