Sherwin-Williams CEO establishes trading plan

CLEVELAND Sherwin-Williams announced that Christopher Connor, chairman and CEO, has established a trading plan in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act. Rule 10b5-1 permits individuals who are not then in possession of material nonpublic information to establish prearranged plans to buy or sell stock. The rule allows individuals to buy or sell shares of stock at a specific price in the future, regardless of any subsequent material nonpublic information.

Under the plan, Connor intends to exercise 246,067 employee stock options and sell a portion of the underlying shares of Sherwin-Williams common stock beginning in March and continuing from time to time during 2010, subject to the market price of its common stock.