−Removed: We own our world headquarters located in Cleveland, Ohio, which includes the world headquarters for The Americas Group, Consumer Brands Group and Performance Coatings Group.
+Added: We own our world headquarters located in Cleveland, Ohio, which includes the world headquarters for The Americas, Consumer Brands and Performance Coatings Groups and the Administrative segment.
+Added: The Company has entered into an agreement to sell its current headquarters and its research and development center.
+Added: The sale is expected to be completed during 2023.
+Added: Refer to Item 7 for further information on the construction of our new headquarters and research and development center.
Our principal manufacturing and distribution facilities are located as set forth below.
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Consumer Brands Group
+Added: Africa 1 1 1 1
Asia 3 4 7 3 2 5
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Performance Coatings Group
−Removed: Africa 1 1 1 1
−Removed: Asia 2 3 5 2 2 4
Europe 1 5 6 4 2 6
−Removed: Latin America 1 4 5 1 6 7
United States 2 2 3 3
−Removed: 4 35 39 7 30 37
(1) Certain geographic locations may contain both manufacturing and distribution facilities.
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Lucia and Barbados;
−Removed: • the South Western Division operated 1,105 paint stores in the central plains and the lower west coast states;
+Added: • the Southwestern Division operated 1,128 paint stores in the central plains and the lower west coast states;
• the Latin America Division operated 307 paint stores in Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Mexico and Ecuador.
−Removed: During 2021, The Americas Group opened 85 net new stores, consisting of 92 new stores opened (76 in the United States, 3 in Canada, 3 in South America and 10 in Mexico) and 7 stores closed (6 in the United States and 1 in South America).
+Added: During 2022, The Americas Group opened 72 net new stores, consisting of 89 new stores opened (71 in the United States, 11 in Mexico, 6 in Canada and 1 in South America) and 17 stores closed (2 in the United States, 14 in South America and 1 in Mexico).
The Performance Coatings Group operated 223 branches in the United States, of which 8 were owned, at December 31, 2022.
−Removed: The Performance Coatings Group also operated 61 branches internationally, of which 6 were owned, at December 31, 2021, consisting of branches in Canada (21), Europe (15), Chile (11), Mexico (5), Peru (4), Vietnam (3), Ecuador (1), and Brazil (1).
−Removed: During 2021, this segment opened one new branch and closed one branch for no net change in the number of branches operated.
+Added: The Performance Coatings Group also operated 94 branches internationally, of which 7 were owned, at December 31, 2022, consisting of branches in Europe (47), Canada (22), Chile (11), Mexico (5), Peru (3), Vietnam (3), Ecuador (2), and Brazil (1).
+Added: During 2022, this segment added 35 net new branches, consisting of 39 opened or acquired branches and 4 branches closed.
All real property within the Administrative segment is owned by us.
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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.