There are several factors to consider when evaluating sales performance or making sales comparisons with a prior period. In terms of the global market, apart from organic sales growth, these include the price and geo-mix, the product or segment mix (architectural coatings/industrial coatings) and, in particular, currency movements. In Part 2 of this report, we now focus on analysing sales volumes of the top 11 and take a brief look at the companies' profitability during that period When the focus is switched to changes in volume only, i.e. aggregate values for organic volume growth ...