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Sherwin Takes Comex

Nov 13, 2012

Sherwin-Williams has agreed to acquire Mexico’s Consorcio Comex for $2.34bn, it says. The US paint maker is to pay cash, and will also assume an unspecified amount of debt, in order to gain access to a higher-growth Mexican market. The sale of family-owned Comex is heard to come at the end of a competitive bidding process involving multiple parties. Analysts found it difficult to determine the multiple implied in...

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The most pressing issue is related to guaranteeing this growth of the system, the savings. We have to guarantee that this growth is followed by better asset managers on the side of the Afores.

Carlos Ramírez, Mexico’s pension regulator, Consar


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