Below are the year’s most viewed company news stories on the PCI website. Stories featuring mergers and acquisitions and leadership changes at large U.S. coatings companies were popular this year.

• The Sherwin-Williams Co. to Acquire Valspar
• AkzoNobel Confirms Talks With BASF
• PPG Announces Executive Appointments
• American Securities to Acquire Chromaflo Technologies
• Emerald Performance Materials to Sell Specialties and Polymer Additives and Nitriles Businesses
• Wetting and Dispersing Additives
• Evonik Acquires Specialty & Coating Additives Business of Air Products
• AkzoNobel to Acquire BASF's Industrial Coatings Business
• BASF to Acquire Chemetall
• BASF Launches New Global Pigments Brand