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SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Event Date/Time: Mar. 24. 2008 / 11:00AM ET www.streetevents.com Contact Us © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS Chris Connor Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Sean Hennessy Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO John Ault Sherwin-Williams - VP, Corporate Controller Bob Wells Sherwin-Williams - VP, Corporate Communications CONFERENCE CALL PARTICIPANTS Silke Kueck-Valdes JPMorgan Chase - Analyst Chuck Cerankosky FTN Midwest Research - Analyst Dennis McGill Zelman & Assoc. - Analyst Saul Ludwig KeyBanc Capital Markets - Analyst Bob Koort Goldman Sachs - Analyst Robert Felice Gabelli & Co. - Analyst P.J. Juvekar Citigroup - Analyst Gregg Goodnight UBS - Analyst Robert Reitzes Bear Stearns - Analyst Rajul Aggarwal Marathon Asset Management - Analyst Eric Bosshard Cleveland Research Company - Analyst John Roberts Buckingham Research Group - Analyst Mahil Klavel Silicon Capital - Analyst Alexander Mitchell Scopus Asset Management - Analyst PRESENTATION Operator www.streetevents.com Contact Us 1 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Good morning. Thank you for joining us this morning for Sherwin-Williams Company's updated Sales and Earnings expectations for the first quarter and full year 2008. This conference call is being webcast simultaneous in listen-only mode by V-call via the Internet at www.Sherwin.com. An archived replay of this webcast will be available at www.sherwin.com beginning approximately two hours after this conference call concludes, and will be available until Friday, April 11th, 2008, at 5 p.m. Eastern Standard time. This conference call will include certain forward-looking statements as defined under U.S. Federal Securities laws, with respect to sales, earnings, and other matters. Any forward-looking statements speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made. And the Company undertakes no obligate to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. A full declaration regarding forward-looking statements is provided in the Company's earnings earnings release transmitted earlier this morning. After the review of the Company's updated sales and earnings expectations, we will open the session for questions. I will now turn the call over to Chris Connor, Sherwin-Williams' Chairman and CEO. Thank you, Mr. Connor, you may begin. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Thanks, Anthony. Good morning everyone. Joining me this morning on the call are Sean Hennessy, our CFO, John Ault, our Vice President, Corporate Comptroller, and Bob Wells, our Vice President of Corporate Communications. Today we are updating our sales and EPS expectations for the first quarter and full year 2008 that we previously announced on January 29th of this year. For the first quarter we now expect consolidated net sales to increase in the low single-digit percentage range over the first quarter of 2007. Our previous expectation had been for a low to mid single-digit percentage increase. We expect diluted net income per common share for the quarter to be in the range of $0.56 to $0.61 per share, compared to the $0.72 to $0.80 per share guidance we provided in January. As a reminder, the Company reported $0.83 per share in the first quarter of 2007. The lower anticipated earnings per share is due primarily to the negative impact on first quarter operations of lower domestic sales, and the timing and severity of raw material cost increases. For the full year 2008, we are reaffirming our prior consolidated net sales expectation of low-to-mid single digit percentage increase over 2007. We anticipate diluted net income per common share for 2008 will be in the range of $4.70 to $4.85 per share. The earnings per share guidance we provided in January for 2008 was in the range of $5.00 to $5.15 per share. The Company reported diluted net income per common share of $4.70 for the full year 2007. Our lower expectation of diluted net income per common share for the full year 2008 relates primarily to the first quarter shortfall, and the expected continuation of the sluggish U.S. economy and housing market, that will be partly offset by improved international operations. We are disappointed that today's news ends a consistent track record of meeting or exceeding quarterly earnings guidance through some very difficult market conditions over the past several years. The length and severity of the housing market decline has caused a business and segment mix change that is contributing to this earnings shortfall. For example, our comp store performance for our paint store segment will likely finish down mid-single digits for the first quarter, while our global segment is expected to report sales percentage gains in the mid-to-high teens. This mix change towards our lower operating margin business, coupled with increasing raw material input costs, will likely result in a reduction in our margin performance. www.streetevents.com Contact Us 2 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Appropriately the Company is well into the execution of a number of contingency programs to adjust to the current market environment. We are well underway in implementing selective expense and headcount reductions in our plants, distribution centers, and paint stores. These actions are in keeping with our discipline of prudent SG&A management, and will begin to have an impact in the coming quarters. While we intend to continue our aggressive new store opening program, we will accelerate our plans to close redundant store locations from recent acquisitions. This combined activity of openings and closings should give us an additional 40 to 50 net additional stores by the end of 2008, down from our previous guidance of approximately 100 net new stores. We are confident that our cash generation remains on-track, and should once again be in the rate of 10% to sales, as it has been for the past several years. We intend to use our cash consistent with our past practices to continue to create shareholder value. Looking forward, domestic market conditions remain very challenging with no apparent end in sight. While we can't control or predict when the cycle will change course, we will continue to focus our efforts on strengthening the Company, in preparation for the eventual rebound, and importantly, remain committed to generating an improved earnings per share performance year in 2008. With these brief introductory comments behind us, we now welcome your questions. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Operator Thank you. (OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS) Our first question comes from the line of Jeff Zekauskas, JP Morgan Chase. Silke Kueck-Valdes - JPMorgan Chase - Analyst Good morning, this is Silke Kueck-Valdes for Jeff. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Good morning, Silke. Silke Kueck-Valdes - JPMorgan Chase - Analyst Good morning. Can you talk about the source of the demand shortfall, what is weather related, and what is absolutely lower demand that you're experiencing? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Silke, I would tell you that we are not crediting any of this shortfall to weather. And while we have come through the first quarter which is typically our most aggressive weather quarter, it has been consistent weather patterns as we have seen in past years. So our guidance here is 100% related to the softness in the market. www.streetevents.com Contact Us 3 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations As we gave a brief comment on the call, our stores are really feeling the brunt of this, and particularly in the area of those sales that we have to the new housing market, our DIY segment is down as well, and for the first time in quite some period of time, our residential [residing] is flat to slightly down. That is the market where paint for contractors to homes that have been recently sold or purchased is also indicated, and we are seeing a slowdown in the existing home turnover, and we are feeling that through that store segment as well, too. So those are the three areas that we are feeling the pressure right now. Silke Kueck-Valdes - JPMorgan Chase - Analyst If I can ask a question on raw materials, which raw materials are opposite, is it solvent based, is it acrylic, is it TI02? Can you just comment about it? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Certainly the oil derivative and natural gas derivative raws are the ones that are having the biggest impact on us now. We have seen oil go from $75 a barrel in the second half of last year, up towards $90 a barrel in the fourth quarter, and last week up at a $111 spike. So those derivative products have certainly been impacted. Those pricing increases have come quicker than we anticipated. Silke Kueck-Valdes - JPMorgan Chase - Analyst So that is mostly solvent based then? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO There are a lot of derivative that come off of that, fuel costs for our Company, et cetera. And on the natural gas where a lot of the ethylene and propylene costs are driven, which impact our packaging, and other chemicals monomers, et cetera, that is also spiking as well, too. So pretty much across the board with all of the solvent based backdrop raws, we are seeing an increase. Silke Kueck-Valdes - JPMorgan Chase - Analyst Thanks so much. I will get back into queue. Operator Our next question comes from the line of Chuck Cerankosky, FTN Midwest. Please proceed with your question. Chuck Cerankosky - FTN Midwest Research - Analyst Good morning everyone. We are looking at some of the other aspects of the business, can you talk about what you are seeing in industrial maintenance, OEM coatings demand, and also maybe talk specifically about the consumer segment, and how that is faring in the current environment, please? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Sure Chuck, I would be happy to. I think starting with the commercial and industrial segments, our commercial business remains positive through our stores. I think in the fourth quarter and year end call, we gave guidance that we had seen those commercial www.streetevents.com Contact Us 4 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations markets performing probably in the mid-to-high single digits in 2007, and '06, our expectations were that in '08, they would be positive, but more in the low-to-mid single digit range. And that is proving to be the case. So while we are still seeing some growth there, it is just certainly is slower than it had been in the past. And that would be true for our industrial maintenance and protective coatings businesses as well. Still positive, but not as robust as they had been. Our consumer segment, I think our guidance for the year is going to be that that segment is going to come in flat year-over-year, and it is trending right at that line as we speak. Chuck Cerankosky - FTN Midwest Research - Analyst Just to go back to commercial how would you compare new commercial coatings demand with commercial architectural repaint? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO New commercial coatings demand is going to be positive, we think, for the year, in that low-to-mid single-digit range. Residential repaint for the segment? Chuck Cerankosky - FTN Midwest Research - Analyst I meant commercial repaint. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Commercial repaint versus new construction. I don't have that, Chuck. My guess is those will both be very comparable in that low-to-mid single digits, probably. Chuck Cerankosky - FTN Midwest Research - Analyst All right. Thank you. Operator Our next question comes from the line of Dennis McGill with Zelman and Associates. Please proceed with your question. Dennis McGill - Zelman & Assoc. - Analyst Good morning, guys, thanks for the quick call. Just quickly on the guidance for the year, I realize this is difficult, but can you put some parameters around how much of the reduction in guidance would be materials related, how much of it is top line, and how much of it is the mix that you have talked about? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO I would tell you that if it is pretty tough, but I would tell you that the sales and the sales mix is probably 40 to 45% of that, and then the remainder of the 50 to 55% is probably the raws, the margin and the SG&A. www.streetevents.com Contact Us 5 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Dennis McGill - Zelman & Assoc. - Analyst Okay. And second question, just having to do with price, if you could talk a little bit about within the comp store, how much of that mid-single digits climb, what the split roughly would be volume and price, and maybe as you look out this year with material costs going up, and demand going down, putting you on a tough position on increasing prices, anything that changes, relative to what you guys have guided to, to start the year? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Fair question. As we we announced in the January call, we have announced price increases across all segments, in the range of 3.5 to 6.5%, and those price increases are going in and being implemented, pretty much on a historical pattern that we have seen in the past years. To that end, with our comp stores down in the mid-single digits, volume would be down slightly more than that, though some price impact helping offset that, and all of the price impact has not been felt yet, as it will take us the remainder of six to nine months to implement, and get this one in. Going forward we would not be prepared to comment on any future pricing action the Company might take. We will continue to monitor the raw material market and our results, and reserve the right to do that at a later time. Dennis McGill - Zelman & Assoc. - Analyst Just for the guidance for the year on the revenue line basically holding that flat, but I would suppose moving more towards the lower end of the prior range, can you just walk through why that stays in the low-to-mid single-digit range, given the shortfall you have seen, and then maybe your expectations for the year in some of the other sessions? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO You bet, Dennis. As we normally do, we can kind of break down our expectations by segment for you. For the year we expect our store segment, with sales flat to up slightly for the year. Consumer segment should report near flat sales, and global up in the high-single digits. Dennis McGill - Zelman & Assoc. - Analyst And all those would include any currency or acquisition benefits, right. Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO Yes. Dennis McGill - Zelman & Assoc. - Analyst All right. Thanks again, guys. www.streetevents.com Contact Us 6 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Operator Our next question coming from the line of Saul Ludwig with KeyBanc. Saul Ludwig - KeyBanc Capital Markets - Analyst Good morning. On the administrative line, anything noteworthy that is there? What should we be thinking about first quarter to first quarter year to year on administrative? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO I think really there is nothing noteworthy. I think we got through a lot of those quarter by quarter changes last year. I would say that we are going to be flat to up slightly for the quarter and for the year, Saul. Saul Ludwig - KeyBanc Capital Markets - Analyst Okay. On the raw materials, when you gave your guidance on the 29th of January, by that time you would have locked in certainly your contractual pricing for the first quarter, and you kind of knew what that was when you gave that guidance. Why is there such a surprise on the raw material front, as regards to the first quarter, given the negotiations that you would have had, long before you gave your guidance? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Yes, I think that is a fair question, Saul. When we gave guidance in the January call, that was really the work we had been doing in the fourth quarter 2007, to get to our best guess at that point in time. I would remind you to your point about our contractual agreements, while that is accurate for some of our raw material suppliers, not all of them are on a contractual basis. Some of these raws that we purchase, we have to take sooner rather than later, per our contract agreement. We are also buying a lot of these things just the cost of operating our business. Fuel costs happens to us pretty instantly, and with a fleet of trucks delivering products to our stores, with responsibility for hauling these things around, we have taken that impact directly. So some of them have come sooner than we expected. Some of the contracts had clauses in them that allowed them to be reset if certain input costs for them had changed, and all of those things came to pass in the first quarter. Saul Ludwig - KeyBanc Capital Markets - Analyst Given that the raw material acceleration is coming faster than you thought, why can't you be more aggressive with regard to implementing your own prices, which is sort of totally within your control, why would you let the normal pattern if you will continue, versus changing in-line with the changes that have occurred in raw materials? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO We do have the ability to take those actions. We had announced pricing already for the first quarter, that we are implementing as we speak. As I mentioned in the earlier call, I will continue to monitor our implementation of that, and make a determination if additional pricing actions are necessary later in the year. www.streetevents.com Contact Us 7 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Saul Ludwig - KeyBanc Capital Markets - Analyst You are also mentioned that you are going to do some consolidation of stores, and instead of having 100, you are going to have 40 or 50. As you close some of these redundant stores, does that result in any expenses that you are factoring into both the first quarter or the year, that wasn't there before? And, secondly, you had this dilution as a result of the Bruder acquisition in the third and fourth quarters of last year. What impact is the Bruder acquisition having here in the first quarter, and is in-line with what you thought it would be, or is that also a part of the revision in your estimates? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Let me take the question regarding the stores, and I will ask she wasn't to comment on the M.A. Bruder acquisition specifically. Our intention to accelerate the closing of redundant store locations has not impacted the first quarter earnings performance. And the costs that we will incur in closing them will be modest at best. We will perhaps pay some dead rent in some locations, but for the most part these are locations that are coming up on lease. We have opportunities to consolidate them into nearby stores. This will go both ways. For example, We will close some Sherwin stores and move the business into the neighboring acquired store location, and vice versa, depending on the power of the individual real estate. So none of the planned closings of those stores are included in this first quarter. For that, I will turn it over to Sean to comment on the MAB acquisitions specifically. Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO When you take a look at the MAB acquisition in total, Saul, the back room synergies have come, and we have done very well. Again, Chris just mentioned that we are looking at some of the store closings on the store side, and what that is going to do. But MAB, just because of the cycle that we are in with the sales, does not hit every pro forma that we have had set. But in total the back room synergies has been good. The first quarter we will be dilutive in the MAB transaction because of their, they are in the north, and so basically they are going to be dilutive in the first quarter, just like they were in the fourth. But we start to see in the second and third quarter. And again as you point out in third quarter, we went against some good size expenses for MAB in those quarters, and we see that actually in the third quarter we should have some kind of flow through compared to last year. Saul Ludwig - KeyBanc Capital Markets - Analyst So this dilution that you are going to see in the first quarter, there is not a change in that as it impacted your change in guidance? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO No, no. Saul Ludwig - KeyBanc Capital Markets - Analyst And the bad debts that you took on with Bruder, are they now all cleaned out, so we are not going to see any unusual amount of bad debts? www.streetevents.com Contact Us 8 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO Yes, and that is what the footnote was last year in the third quarter when we did those write-offs. Saul Ludwig - KeyBanc Capital Markets - Analyst Great. Thank you very much. Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO Thanks, Saul. Operator Next question, Bob Koort, Goldman Sachs. Bob Koort - Goldman Sachs - Analyst Thank you, good morning. Could you guys talk a little bit, have you seen much regional disparity, or is it pretty much now, there was for a while there it was, the coasts were suffering the most, is it pretty well across the country, or is there still greater pain around the coasts? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO In the new home construction market, we are still feeling primarily in the Sun coast market, a more aggressive decline, Florida, the Carolinas, the southwestern part of the United States. But that has been joined now by, to your point, a much more consistent softness in existing home turnover and other markets across the entire United States. Bob Koort - Goldman Sachs - Analyst And, Chris, would you ever consider putting in some sort of indexed escalator into your price deck, so that you can go to your customer base and say, it is not us, it is the raws, or does that then take away the opportunity if raw materials ever do fall, to sort of get your pay back as your prices are a bit stickier? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO We have not historically used that as a pricing mechanism, and I don't think there is any plan to switch to it. Bob Koort - Goldman Sachs - Analyst And then last question, obviously the economy is weak that is causing credit issues for consumers, to what extent have you seen any increased price elasticity, in other words, are consumers not buying as much paint because they have got other problems, or is there at some point a price threshold where they will stop buying paint specifically? www.streetevents.com Contact Us 9 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO That is an interesting question. I don't have the answer to that. Through past cycles we have seen consumers willing to continue to by quality products. We have not seen a significant mix change down to lower quality products in our group. So I would think that that isn't at play here. I think it is just an overall softness and slow down in demand. Bob Koort - Goldman Sachs - Analyst Perfect. Thank you. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Thanks, Bob. Operator Our next question comes from the line of Robert Felice with Gabelli and Company. Robert Felice - Gabelli & Co. - Analyst Most of my questions have been answered, just a couple more. If I look, you lowered your guidance by $0.30 for the year, and the shortfall during the quarter is $0.16 to $0.24, which would suggest that as the year progresses you expect some of these issues to taper off or be less of a headwind? I guess I am wondering what your assumptions are for the rest of the year in terms of your price cost gap, how much you expect raw material costs to rise, and then domestic demand, whether or not you expect that to improve a bit on a sequential basis as the year progresses, or at least as we near the back half of the year? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO You are correct, I mean when you take a look at the numerous questions I will try to grab as many as I can if I remember here. When you asked about that price gap as Chris mentioned in the beginning, in the mid-December timeframe, in the first quarter we have been implementing a 3.5 to 6.5% selling price increase across. If the past is any indication we will get 80 to 85% of that throughout the year. We are less than that right now, but as time goes on, it usually takes us six to nine months to really get most of that. So that is going to continue to help us. When you take a look at the SG&A actions that we have taken, in the short term there won't be as much goodness from the forecast, but by the third and fourth quarter, we see that also helping us. And so those are the types of transactions or actions that we have taken that we think will help us, and will alleviate the negative debts that we have in the first quarter, to actually be able to give you guidance in that $4.70 to $4.85 range. Robert Felice - Gabelli & Co. - Analyst And by the third and fourth quarter do you expect demand to pick up on a sequential basis? www.streetevents.com Contact Us 10 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO No, I think our forecasts here are based on the current market environment that we are seeing. I think in the comments we said we don't see it ending any time soon. Our guidance is based on the actions we are taking to get the Company position to generate the earnings guidance we have just given. Robert Felice - Gabelli & Co. - Analyst If I remember correctly on your fourth quarter call, you had expected raw material cost inflation for the year to be between 3 and 6%. Did you revise that at all? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Yes, we are revising that today. We now think given the current levels of raw inputs, that we expect to industry will take a 4 to 8%. Robert Felice - Gabelli & Co. - Analyst In terms of the first quarter, can you just comment as to how much costs were up year-over-year and how much pricing you got? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO It would be in that 3 to 6% range, towards the high-end. We have told that you we announced pricing in the 3.5 to 6.5% range, and we are moving towards, as Sean said, about an 80% expected full pricing implementation, but that will take us probably the better part, in to the third quarter to get it. We are right on-track with where we ought to be moving towards those goals. Robert Felice - Gabelli & Co. - Analyst So about 6% cost inflation in the first quarter, and pricing of maybe 2% or so out of that 3.5 to 6.5, is that fair? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO You are not directionally far off. Robert Felice - Gabelli & Co. - Analyst Okay. Which would suggest to me, if your raw material costs are 50% of your COGS, then you are off on pricing by maybe 1% to 1.5%? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO That is not far off, either. www.streetevents.com Contact Us 11 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Robert Felice - Gabelli & Co. - Analyst Thanks for taking my call. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Thanks Rob. Operator Next question, P.J. Juvekar with Citigroup. P.J. Juvekar - Citigroup - Analyst Good morning. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Good morning. P.J. Juvekar - Citigroup - Analyst Can you talk about pricing in the consumer segment division? You talked about your own stores, but what is going on in consumer division? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Sure. P.J. Juvekar - Citigroup - Analyst And is there, what is your intelligence about price increases at big boxes this year? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Consumer segment is included in our comments that across all segments we have instituted 3.5 to 6.5 price increases. Those conversations have been presented and are taking place. And we expect all customers to eventually get in line. As we have commented in the past, our larger retailing partners are more difficult pricing discussions for us to have, but I think given the current market conditions and the support and the need for this, those activities are moving along at the appropriate pace. P.J. Juvekar - Citigroup - Analyst So would you say, Chris, that discussions with the big boxes, pricing is probably less than 3.5 to 6.5 that you talked about? www.streetevents.com Contact Us 12 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO We wouldn't comment specifically on any one customer, or reaction or negotiations. I am only comfortable telling you that we have taken pricing in the range of 3.5 to 6.5% to all customers, including the big boxes, and those conversations are ongoing. P.J. Juvekar - Citigroup - Analyst Okay. Then secondly as your outlook changes, is there a change in the way you use your free cash flow this year? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO No. I think that we are still out there looking at acquisitions. I think we announced Inchem. We also announced that we completed a deal with Becker Powder earlier this year. And we are still going to be using it to increase shareholder value. P.J. Juvekar - Citigroup - Analyst How actively are you looking at global acquisitions to globalize the business, which is today predominantly U.S. based? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Last year with the seven acquisitions we announced, four of them are outside of the United States, as Sean just mentioned the two we have announced this year, one of them is located in Singapore. As we go forward, we will continue to look for those opportunities outside of North America. P.J. Juvekar - Citigroup - Analyst Thank you. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Thanks, P.J. Operator Our next question comes from the line of Gregg Goodnight with UBS. Please proceed with your question. Gregg Goodnight - UBS - Analyst Yes, a question for you. In terms of the same store paint segment revenue growth, you said down mid-single digits. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Correct. www.streetevents.com Contact Us 13 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Gregg Goodnight - UBS - Analyst Including the uptick from M&A, what would you think the total revenue growth per paint store, is it going to breakeven, or be slightly negative? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO It is going to be very breakeven to slightly negative, right in that area. Gregg Goodnight - UBS - Analyst Maybe down a couple percent even? Is that the first time that has ever happened? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO No, it happened back in 2001 one quarter, there was quarter in 2001, and prior to that it has been a while, I can't. Gregg Goodnight - UBS - Analyst I am talking for the entire year, has it ever happened for the entire year? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO We are a 142-year old company, Gregg. I can't pull that year off the top of my head. Gregg Goodnight - UBS - Analyst Okay. Very good. Commercial construction, would you comment on the direction you are seeing with respect to new commercial construction? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO We rely on McGraw Hills Dodge reports to comment on that, and I think in the fourth quarter when we were discussing this with the investment community, we were relying on documents from them that talked about positive year-over-year new construction. We have watched those reports wane, in terms of their confidence and robustness, and I think the guidance that we are giving now, or expecting, is that is going to be up flat to low single digits, as compared to past practices where it was in the mid-to-high single digits. Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO One clarification on your first question, our outlook for stores for the year is to be flat to up slightly, not down slightly, I thought you meant the first quarter, Gregg. Gregg Goodnight - UBS - Analyst Okay, and that is including perhaps the 50 store shutdown from your acquisitions? www.streetevents.com Contact Us 14 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Yes, that would be consolidated revenue based on all the guidance and actions that we are taking this year. Gregg Goodnight - UBS - Analyst Okay. Great. Thanks again. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Thanks, Gregg. Operator Our next question comes from the line of Robert Reitzes, Bear Stearns. Robert Reitzes - Bear Stearns - Analyst Just some quick questions, do you think you guys lost any market share in the first quarter, or is this generic for the whole industry? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO It is difficult to make that determination until we see some industry data. Anecdotally just talking with our folks we don't think this is a market share decline, as much as it just entire sector softness. Robert Reitzes - Bear Stearns - Analyst The second question is you guys, it was asked a couple ways differently, on the industrial non-residential, was that also weak, or weaker than you thought, in line with what you thought? I am just curious in your outlook if you have any visibility there? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO I think we gave guidance that those numbers would be weaker than they have been historically, and the results were in-line with our expectations. Robert Reitzes - Bear Stearns - Analyst Thanks. Operator Our next question comes from the line of Rajul Aggarwal, Marathon Asset Management. www.streetevents.com Contact Us 15 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Rajul Aggarwal - Marathon Asset Management - Analyst Hi, thanks for taking my questions. Two questions, one is in terms of the raw material cost inflation we are seeing, it is a first for a lot of things. Just wanted to get your perspective, if you see another 10 to 20% move in oil uptick and gas uptick, where do you see the biggest risk in the business, as far as volumes, margins. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Well, it is difficult to predict if that would happen. If it did happen, I think what you would see the risk to us would be in the raw material input costs and impacting in our margins. Just since we have given guidance that the industry would take a 3 to 6% price increase year over year, now we are adjusting that cost increase to be 4 to 8%. You can see the corresponding margin impact that has had on our Company and probably some of our peers as well. So if it continues to go higher, we will feel that in the margins and the pricing impact. Rajul Aggarwal - Marathon Asset Management - Analyst From what you are saying you don't see much being impacted from the demand side from these ever increasing raw material costs? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO We think the demand side is mostly driven by the housing environment. That is more of a financing issue. Where interest rates are high, and there is significant inventory in the market, as opposed to any kind of pricing that is driving that. Rajul Aggarwal - Marathon Asset Management - Analyst Okay. The second question and maybe restating an older question, when you gave your last guidance you certain view of the world as to how the first quarter will pan out and how the full year will pan out, and given where you are right now, you reduced the first quarter guidance significantly, and I just, it seems like the if full year is primarily the first year, and first quarter impact and driving the change for the rest of the quarters, I was wondering as to why you haven't changed your outlook for the rest of the year, more so versus what you thought it would be when you gave the initial guidance? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO When we see that $0.30 we think that is pretty dramatic, what we think is going to be down. On the sales side when we were, we sit there and take a look at what we think by the different markets and so forth, and we have looked at, looking to the outside we think that sales will not be the biggest impact. It will probably be the other factors. But we brought our sales down a little bit for the year. But it is really the $0.30 that, taking it from $4.70 to $4.85, from the $5.00 to $5.15. Rajul Aggarwal - Marathon Asset Management - Analyst I understand what you are saying. Maybe I didn't say it right, where I was coming from was after the $0.30, $0.20 seems to be coming from the first quarter itself? www.streetevents.com Contact Us 16 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO We definitely see that most of the pain we were going to take this year was in the first quarter, and I think as we reviewed with the investment community on this call this morning, the action steps that management has taken, and our confidence that those steps are going to have an impact on the results for the remainder of the year, gives us the confidence to give the guidance we just have. Rajul Aggarwal - Marathon Asset Management - Analyst Thank you. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Thank you. Operator Our next question comes from the line of Eric Bosshard with Cleveland Research Company. Eric Bosshard - Cleveland Research Company - Analyst Good morning. Chris, the comment you just made with the steps you are taking to mitigate what is going on is why Q2 to 4Q gets better, I would assume that the price increase is much more important than the SG&A, but can you characterize the relative importance of those two factors, in terms of improving the results as we work through the year? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Eric, I would say that I wouldn't agree with you. I think the SG&A reductions are as important this year as pricing. In past years we have gone through this cycle, and we have put a lot more emphasis on price, and why that is as important as it has been historically. This year we are putting much more emphasis on getting these SG&A reductions to get them in-line with what our revenues are going to be. So there is a lot of effort and energy right now in the Company getting those costs out, and aligned appropriately with the expectations we have for the rest of the year. Eric Bosshard - Cleveland Research Company - Analyst The big piece, are there any big pieces or buckets within the SG&A reduction that you can highlight? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO No, I don't think so. There shouldn't be. If the Company is appropriately managed, we shouldn't have huge opportunities to lop off bodies, and that is the case here. This is happening store by store, factory by factory, distribution center by distribution throughout our corporate headquarters here, flattening out our organization, just appropriately reducing headcount wherever we can. www.streetevents.com Contact Us 17 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Eric Bosshard - Cleveland Research Company - Analyst In terms of the opens, I understand where the net goes, but in terms of the gross opens, what has changed in that area in terms of how many stores you are going to open? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Not a lot. As we have commented in the past, this process of negotiating and selecting outstanding retail locations, is an activity that happens well in front of the store actually opening. So as we enter into this year, we have probably 60 to 70 of those 100 net new locations kind of in the bag already. We will slow that down a little bit, and probably maybe net new get another 10 or 20, on top of the 60 we entered the year with. But as we speak we are working on store locations that we intend to open in 2009. So the pace is continuing a little bit slower on the total openings, and the net to your point, down to that 40 to 50 range. Eric Bosshard - Cleveland Research Company - Analyst And lastly, Sean, can you give us any sense on the gross margin for the year? I guess and quickly going through my numbers maybe it looks like the full year gross margin ends up down a 0.5 point, or a bit more than that with the first quarter down 1.5 points, can you give us any guidance on the gross margin? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO I would tell you that we really wanted to avoid going through the full model, and talking about margin, and the SG&A, and so forth. But I wouldn't have a big argument with the numbers that you just quoted. Eric Bosshard - Cleveland Research Company - Analyst And then as you think about '09 which is a ways away, is this, historically we have seen some type of multi-year step downs in gross margin, is it something that is more likely focused as '08 and then you could stop the gross margin decline and start to recapture this in '09, is there anything from a big picture standpoint that you could comment on that? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO I could tell you it's really going to come down to the raws and we will probably have a better idea of what we think raws will be in 2009 in another two quarters or so. But right now our thoughts would be that it would be able to maintain our margins in '09. Eric Bosshard - Cleveland Research Company - Analyst Thank you. Operator Our next question comes from the line of John Roberts from Buckingham Research. Please proceed with your question. www.streetevents.com Contact Us 18 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations John Roberts - Buckingham Research Group - Analyst Good morning, guys. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Good morning, John. John Roberts - Buckingham Research Group - Analyst Would you characterize this as bad as the period right after 9/11? That was the last really weak period I think you referred to in an earlier response. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO It is interesting. It is very different from that period, too. That was much more of a corporate driven decline where corporate profits were down. We saw very little spending on infrastructure. Our industrial maintenance businesses were down significantly. This one is much broader because it is a housing market which impacts literally every little town in America. So from a steepness, yes, but from a flavor, very different. John Roberts - Buckingham Research Group - Analyst Secondly the big box retailers sometimes can move their inventories around a lot. It doesn't sound like an inventory reduction at your consumer segment is an issue here. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO That is correct. John Roberts - Buckingham Research Group - Analyst Lastly, are you facing down pricing in any markets? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO As we have commented in the past particularly through our stores organization, when we are bidding on larger jobs, and in a period of low demand, sometimes pricing will be lower year-over-year we have always experienced that. We are experiencing some of that as we speak. But for the most part as we have commented, these price increases are going in, and we do expect that on average we will have higher selling prices this year. John Roberts - Buckingham Research Group - Analyst Thank you. www.streetevents.com Contact Us 19 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Thanks, John. Operator Our next question comes from the line of [Mahil Klavel with Silicon Capital]. Mahil Klavel - Silicon Capital - Analyst Hi, good morning, I was wondering if you could give us a sense of the volume declines in Q1, and your expectations for the full year on a like for like basis for the U.S.? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO On the volume we probably will comment at the end of the first quarter, and probably give you some guidance then. We are not prepared to today. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO I think we talked about just anecdotally we said on the call for example our comp stores were down mid-single digits, and volume was a little more backwards than that. With the company in the low-to-mid single digits for the quarter. Some pricing, volume is going to be flat to backwards slightly, and as Sean said, we will give you that much more close in on the April 22nd call when we close the quarter. Mahil Klavel - Silicon Capital - Analyst And in terms of the 4 to 8% increase in raw material prices, could you give a rough as to what is coming from oil pricing and from packaging [costs are up about 80%]. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO We don't really have that information available for this call, I'm sorry. Mahil Klavel - Silicon Capital - Analyst Thank you. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Thank you. Operator Our next question come from the line of Alex Mitchell with Scopus Asset Management, please proceed with your question. www.streetevents.com Contact Us 20 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Alexander Mitchell - Scopus Asset Management - Analyst Good morning. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Good morning. Alexander Mitchell - Scopus Asset Management - Analyst Are you budgeting in the a higher marketing and promotional spend in this environment spend going forward? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO I don't have that number in front of me either. My guess is no. Alexander Mitchell - Scopus Asset Management - Analyst So it would be comparable to including the seasonal pick up and comparable to--? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO It will be flat plus or minus a few points from last year's level. Alexander Mitchell - Scopus Asset Management - Analyst Okay. And just finally, are you, will the tax rate be consistent with your previous guidance? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO Yes, I think we said that we would be in the low 30s, that 33% range for the year, and we think that the first quarter will be comparable to that. Alexander Mitchell - Scopus Asset Management - Analyst Okay. Thank you very much. Operator Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Chuck Cerankosky with FTN Midwest. www.streetevents.com Contact Us 21 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Chuck Cerankosky - FTN Midwest Research - Analyst I want to follow up on the cash flow implications of some of the things you have been talking about with regard to looking at the full year. Any cash coming in from asset sales as you back off on some of these redundant stores? What is the CapEx budget for this year, and what are the implications for your working capital needs? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO I would tell you that, I will take them in reverse order. When you take a look at the CapEx, I think our CapEx is going to be probably a little lower than the 165 that we told you earlier in the year. As far as set sales when you take a look at it, I mean there's, last year I think we had an asset sale of a piece of property in [Beltsville] and we are looking at a couple of little things, but we really don't have any assets of significance for sale site now, Chuck. And then on the working capital we are spending a lot of time working on collecting those receivables, and really inventory. So we think that we still will have even with the sales implications it is tough to have working capital improvement, but we still have a goal, we still have an idea that we can get working capital improvement this year. Chuck Cerankosky - FTN Midwest Research - Analyst Is the challenge with the reduced sales because the cost of the raws are going up? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO Well, that is challenge, but just as a percent of sales as we have increased we have done a few acquisitions, and with the sales increase, just when you are averaging over the year it's just tough to have more assets from acquisitions, and have lower working capital as a percent of sales, because if your sales are in low single digits, call it 1 to 3%, and just trying to get your working capital below that it is sort of tough. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO The other impact, too, Chuck is if you think about it the working capital percentages we enjoy domestically through our stores business, compared to the working capital in our global segment is stronger, so as our global business gross faster and the mix changes that has a negative impact on the working capital as well. So to Sean's point, even with all those factors at play here, we are still pushing towards a flat perhaps slightly improved working capital year. Chuck Cerankosky - FTN Midwest Research - Analyst All right. Thanks. Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO Thanks, Chuck. Operator Ladies and gentlemen, (OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS) We have a follow-up question from the line of Saul Ludwig, KeyBanc. Please proceed with your question. www.streetevents.com Contact Us 22 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Saul Ludwig - KeyBanc Capital Markets - Analyst Chris, with the guidance that you have given for the full year looking at sort of from a macro picture, we are starting off the year pretty week, very, very soft, net comparable store sales that is a function of the housing, less housing turnover, all the points that you made, what assumptions have you made about the macro environment in regard to the full year guidance that you have given? Because it sounds like you are counting on some things getting much better than they are now. I wonder if you might just elaborate. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Sure, well, I think we are giving guidance, Saul, for the entire year that we expect the Company to be up in the low-to-mid single digits, which is where we are at in the first quarter. So we are not indicating that we are going to see a significant improvement in the marketing conditions. They are going to drive this on the revenue side, this is not going to be a revenue led rebound in the next couple of quarters for our Company. We are seeing strength in our global segments as we have talked about. And I think our expectations are that as these pricing actions take effect as the other contingency plans that we have discussed on this call take effect, then we will be able to see the Company's financial earnings performance come back in-line. Saul Ludwig - KeyBanc Capital Markets - Analyst So in kind of a broader sense you took $0.30 off the full year, you took $0.20 off the first quarter. So that means you took $0.10 off maybe the second quarter, and yet you are not thinking there is going to be much change in the back end of the year from an earnings standpoint, compared to what you previously expected initially. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO That is correct. Saul Ludwig - KeyBanc Capital Markets - Analyst Great. Thank you. One final thing, how much have you spent on acquisitions so far this year? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO I would tell you, yes, the only one that we have completed is the Becker transaction. The Inchem has not been completed. We believe that is going to be completed in the May timeframe. So the Becker was less than $50 million. Saul Ludwig - KeyBanc Capital Markets - Analyst How much. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Less than 50 million. www.streetevents.com Contact Us 23 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Saul Ludwig - KeyBanc Capital Markets - Analyst How much is the next one order of magnitude? Sean Hennessy - Sherwin-Williams - SVP, CFO A little higher than 50 million. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Less than 100 million. Saul Ludwig - KeyBanc Capital Markets - Analyst Okay. Thanks for those precise numbers. Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO You are welcome, Saul. (laughter) We have lots more of them over here for you, too. Saul Ludwig - KeyBanc Capital Markets - Analyst Thank you. (laughter) Operator Follow up from Jeff Zekauskas from JPMorgan. Silke Kueck-Valdes - JPMorgan Chase - Analyst Good morning, Silke again. Can you comment on the magnitude of the easier cost reductions that you could get if I remember it right, you spent maybe 200 or 300 million advertising every year, and there are a bunch of flex workers that you hire out of college over the summers, are those all things that could come down very, very quickly? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO Yes, I think it was Eric Bosshard's question regarding whether there any big buckets where we could see cuts in SG&A, like advertising to take that to zero for example, and the answer is that there are no areas like that, Silke, where we are taking extremely drastic reactions. We are taking some of our service headcounts down, and are our stores organization as demand softens we are able to do that into your point about summertime help in the stores that won't be hired this year, and it's really across the board in a variety of different areas. We continue to invest in our R&D, to continue to bring out innovative new products, we are not cutting there. We are continuing to invest in the training programs, to ensure that the people that we do have in our stores are prepared to service our demanding customer base. We will continue to invest in those areas that we think are appropriate to keep the www.streetevents.com Contact Us 24 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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24. 2008 / 11:00AM, SHW - The Sherwin-Williams Company Updates 2008 Sales and Earnings Expectations Company going. Having said that all that there's always areas where companies can continue to trim fat and build muscle, and those are the actions we are taking. Silke Kueck-Valdes - JPMorgan Chase - Analyst What is the very rough ratio in terms of full-time employees at the stores versus summer help? Chris Connor - Sherwin-Williams - Chairman, CEO I don't have that information with me. Silke Kueck-Valdes - JPMorgan Chase - Analyst Thanks very much. Operator There are no further questions at this time. I would now like to turn the floor back over to Mr. Bob Wells for closing comments. Bob Wells - Sherwin-Williams - VP, Corporate Communications Thank you. We appreciate you all taking time to participate in our call this morning. As a reminder, we will be reporting our first quarter results on April 22nd at 11 a.m. And we look forward to providing more detail on the quarter and our full year expectations at that time. In the meantime, thanks for joining us this morning, and thank you again for your interest in Sherwin-Williams. Operator This concludes today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation DISCLAIMER Thomson Financial reserves the right to make changes to documents, content, or other information on this web site without obligation to notify any person of such changes. In the conference calls upon which Event Transcripts are based, companies may make projections or other forward-looking statements regarding a variety of items. Such forward-looking statements are based upon current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those stated in any forward-looking statement based on a number of important factors and risks, which are more specifically identified in the companies' most recent SEC filings. Although the companies may indicate and believe that the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements are reasonable, any of the assumptions could prove inaccurate or incorrect and, therefore, there can be no assurance that the results contemplated in the forward-looking statements will be realized. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN EVENT TRANSCRIPTS IS A TEXTUAL REPRESENTATION OF THE APPLICABLE COMPANY'S CONFERENCE CALL AND WHILE EFFORTS ARE MADE TO PROVIDE AN ACCURATE TRANSCRIPTION, THERE MAY BE MATERIAL ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR INACCURACIES IN THE REPORTING OF THE SUBSTANCE OF THE CONFERENCE CALLS. IN NO WAY DOES THOMSON FINANCIAL OR THE APPLICABLE COMPANY ASSUME ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY INVESTMENT OR OTHER DECISIONS MADE BASED UPON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THIS WEB SITE OR IN ANY EVENT TRANSCRIPT. USERS ARE ADVISED TO REVIEW THE APPLICABLE COMPANY'S CONFERENCE CALL ITSELF AND THE APPLICABLE COMPANY'S SEC FILINGS BEFORE MAKING ANY INVESTMENT OR OTHER DECISIONS. ©2008, Thomson Financial. All Rights Reserved. 1804956-2008-03-24T14:54:49.193 www.streetevents.com Contact Us 25 © 2008 Thomson Financial. Republished with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial.
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