PAP154: Pulling back the curtains on Sherwin Williams ANZ with Richard Reneman Paint and Panel: The Edge

This week’s key takeaway:
Pulling back the curtain on Sherwin-Williams ANZ with Richard Reneman
 
Episode intro:
Something a bit different this week, as Ben takes a trip out of the studio to a top-of-the-range facility and speaks to Richard Reneman: director of Sherwin-Williams ANZ.
 
Based down in Kincumber, the Sherwin-Williams site boasts a state-of-the art paint-mixing room and some top training and manufacturing facilities. Ben picked Richard’s brains about the success of the business, and why now is the time for Sherwin-Williams to announce themselves to the world.
 
In this week’s episode you will learn:
How Sherwin-Williams got a foothold in Australia
What Richard learned as a distributor
The sub-brands in the Sherwin-Williams family
Why core values are more important than products
Sherwin-Williams’ new products that require no prior industry knowledge to operate
How to make employees feel part of something rather than simply being ‘workers’
Why every employee should be viewed as equally important
Where Sherwin-Williams is going next
Show links:
** Find Richard on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-reneman-61a71a92/?originalSubdomain=au
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