Crown Paints Opening Doors Event - Introduction

Don’t just paint it…Crown it.

Don’t just paint it…Crown it.

‘We know paints inside and out’

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About Crown Paints• Headquartered at Darwen in Lancashire.• The largest and most successful independent paint

manufacturer in the UK. • One of the longest established, with over 200 years in

the wallpaper, printing and paints industry.• Customers come from all walks of life – professional

specifiers to householders. • Our brands are household names. • Our products adorn and protect the most iconic

buildings in the land.

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Our owners – Endless LLP

• Endless is a UK based national private equity house focusing on buyout and acquisition opportunities.• Specialists in turnaround and restructuring businesses.• A team of 25 with offices in London, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham.• Winners of the Turnaround/ Rescue Deal of the Year.

Crown Paints is a major acquisition for Endless, with major growth focus on:

• Significant infrastructure investment, including IT, plant and equipment.• Focus on developing Export opportunities and strengthening the Crown Decorating Centres network.

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200 years of innovation• First to market with many innovations including the first One Coat and Non Drip paints, the first

testerpot, the first to introduce colour family packaging to name a few.• Recent innovations include:

– the highly flexible paint film found in Sadolin Superdec– the advanced micro-porosity of our Sandtex exterior coatings and – the Breatheasy® minimal solvent formulations found throughout the Crown range.

• Crown Paints has two major production sites, at Hull and Darwen, with distribution centres located in Darwen, Warrington, Dublin and Belfast.

• Our own network of Crown Decorating Centres numbers 128 throughout the UK and Eire, providing effective national coverage and ensuring ready availability of Crown Paints products and a wide selection of decorating sundries.

Made in the UK

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Balance is vital in everything we do – and now it’s more important than ever to get the balance right, earthbalance® is our commitment to be more sustainable, less wasteful and to help our customers make responsible decisions about our world.

earthbalance® is our way of providing an holistic and coherent approach to sustainability for all of Crown Paints and as such sits at the heart of all our thinking.

earthbalance® in practice

Our policies

• Existing carbon footprint will be PAS2050 compliant by the end of 2009.• All our sites will produce 0% landfill waste by 2012.• Further initiatives include solvent reclamation, packaging reductions recycling and use of waste paint as fuel. • Participation in the Carbon Reduction Commitment 2010.

Award winning green

Installation of motion sensor lighting at our Coolock Distribution centre in Dublin, has reduced electrical consumption by a massive 38% on site and saw Crown Paints Eire win the Sustainable Energy Ireland Award for 2008.

Around the world

• Crown Paints is a truly global company,exporting and licensing its brands all around the world.

• Our complete range of quality paints, woodcare products and decorating sundries are available via our global network of distribution agents, or from `Crown Paints’ nominated licensees

• Our partnership philosophy encourages an exchange of ideas and knowledge to develop and grow around the world.

Our brands are our equity…

Market position

Retail Sales:

Crown Retail No 2

Sandtex Retail No 1

Sadolin Woodstain No 1

Trade Sales:

Crown Trade No 2

Sandtex Trade No 1

Sadolin Woodstain No 1

Crown Decorating Centres No 1 for service

Crown Decorating CentresFor all your decorating needs.

• Crown Decorating Centres are primarily dedicated to servicing the needs of professional painters and decorators.• Recognised as Best In Class for Service and advice.• With a fantastic product offering that includes the country’s largest stock of Crown Trade, Sandtex Trade, Macpherson and Sadolin as well as an exhaustive range of tools, equipment and sundries.• Our staff have over 5,000 man years of knowledge and experience.

Crown Paints looking to the future• Our sustainable policies give us good cause to look positively to the future.• We continue to invest in our brands and our infrastructure. • We constantly seek ways to become a lower cost producer and distributor.• We employ best procurement practices and careful cost control.• Customers are the reason we exist. We put them first, aiming to serve them better by being better.

Don’t just paint it…Crown it.

Don’t just paint it…Crown it.