I would also like to thank our global associates, management team and Board of Directors. The improvement in cost of sales as a percentage of sales was driven primarily by the increase in sales associated with ColorMatrix, a specialty platform business, which, like our other specialty businesses, has higher gross margins than our other segments. These RSUs, which vest over a 3-year service period, were granted to executives and other key employees.

I’d like to review just some of the many ways we executed with excellence in 2014. In closing, I would like to first thank our dedicated customers, for choosing PolyOne as a partner for their material science and services needs. Valuation allowances are established when realization of the benefit of deferred tax assets is not deemed to be more likely than not.

Benefit Plans. • Review and approve, or recommend to the Board the approval of, the structure of the Company’s retirement plans, and other benefit plans that are compensatory in nature. Other Delegated Duties or Responsibilities. • Perform any other duties or responsibilities delegated to the Committee by the Board from time to time. Independence Assessment of Outside Advisers • The Committee may select a compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser to the Committee or receive advice from a compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser (other than in-house legal counsel or any compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser whose role is limited to the following activities for which no disclosure would be required under Item 407(e)(3)(iii) of Regulation S-K: consulting on any broad-based plan that does not discriminate in scope, terms, or operation, in favor of executive officers or directors of the Company, and that is available generally to all salaried employees; or providing information that either is not customized for a particular company or that is customized based on parameters that are not developed by the compensation consultant, and about which the compensation consultant does not provide advice) only after taking into consideration all factors relevant to that person’s independence from management, including the following: • the provision of other services to the Company by the employer of the compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser; 5 • the amount of fees received from the Company by the employer of the compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser, as a percentage of the total revenue of the employer of the compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser; • the policies and procedures of the employer of the compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser that are designed to prevent conflicts of interest; • any business or personal relationship of the compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser with a member of the Committee; • any stock of the Company owned by the compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser; and • any business or personal relationship of the compensation consultant, legal counsel, other adviser or the employer of the adviser with an executive officer of the Company. • The Committee shall evaluate whether any compensation consultant retained or to be retained by it has any conflict of interest in accordance with Item 407(e)(3)(iv) of Regulation S-K.

CLEVELAND – April 11, 2014 – PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, intends to release its first quarter 2014 earnings after the market close on Wednesday, April 30, 2014. PolyOne Corporation, with 2013 revenues of $3.8 billion, is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.

CLEVELAND – PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL) a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, intends to release its fourth quarter 2013 earnings after the market close on Tuesday, January 28, 2014. PolyOne Corporation, with 2012 revenues of $2.9 billion, is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.

CLEVELAND – PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, intends to release its fourth quarter 2014 earnings after the market close on Tuesday, January 27, 2015.  PolyOne Corporation, with 2013 revenues of $3.8 billion, is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.

CLEVELAND – PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL) a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, intends to release its first quarter 2015 earnings after the market close on Thursday, April 30, 2015. PolyOne Corporation, with 2014 revenues of $3.8 billion, is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.

CLEVELAND – PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, intends to release its second quarter 2014 earnings after the market close on Monday, July 21, 2014. PolyOne Corporation, with 2013 revenues of $3.8 billion, is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.

CLEVELAND – PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, intends to release its third quarter 2014 earnings after the market close on Thursday, October 23, 2014. PolyOne Corporation, with 2013 revenues of $3.8 billion, is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.

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