The range of world- class services includes: COLOR TECHNOLOGY Custom matching, saturated colors & special effects to fill market niches and eliminate secondary operations. COLOR AND DESIGN SERVICES Trend and color insights, and product development assistance to optimize design and gain speed to market. FIELD TECHNICAL SERVICE Support for tool design, startup and production optimization to gain manufacturing efficiencies.

The evolving trade policy has led to uncertainty impacting demand in certain markets and geographies, particularly in the These results were achieved by remaining focused on our customers and staying agile to the changing market conditions.   While we anticipate weakness in consumer and transportation end markets, we see opportunities for growth in our largest end market, packaging, as well as strength in our high profit portfolios in defense and healthcare.   

Our investments in sustainable solutions combined with our initiatives to control costs, are helping to offset weak demand across many end markets," said Most notably, sales of composite technologies organically increased 8% over the prior year, and additives into the packaging market increased 3%."  The divestment of PP&S is expected to close soon, which will reduce our exposure to more cyclical end markets and strengthen our balance sheet. 

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construction demand versus previous expectations for the second quarter, sales into this end market remained below 2018 levels. Patterson said, "We believe the current market challenges will continue into the second half of 2019.  Special items include charges related to specific strategic initiatives or financial restructuring such as: consolidation of operations; debt extinguishment costs; costs incurred directly in relation to acquisitions or divestitures; employee separation costs resulting from personnel reduction programs, plant realignment costs, executive separation agreements; asset impairments; mark-to-market adjustments associated with actuarial gains and losses on pension and other post-retirement benefit plans; environmental remediation costs, fines, penalties and related insurance recoveries related to facilities no longer owned or closed in prior years; gains and losses on the divestiture of operating businesses, joint ventures and equity investments; gains and losses on facility or property sales or disposals; results of litigation, fines or penalties, where such litigation (or action relating to the fines or penalties) arose prior to the commencement of the performance period; one-time, non-recurring items; and the effect of changes in accounting principles or other such laws or provisions affecting reported results.

In the revenue by end market chart on the right, you can see the preponderance now heavily focuses on markets with secular growth trends that can grow in excess of GDP. Course evaluations, focus groups and program pilot techniques are utilized to gain insight to program effectiveness and monitor opportunities for enhancement. We continue to enable our innovation strategy through investment in R&D, sales and marketing resources.

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The pandemic has negatively impacted every region and many end markets, but certain end markets such as healthcare and packaging are holding up well." Market conditions remain challenged, as most of the world outside of Given the uncertainty in global markets, the company does not plan to provide specific guidance for the second quarter or the balance of the year at this time. 

Lorraine provides our Board with the broad business perspective that he gained in extensive leadership roles in varying industries. Competitive Market Pay Information and Benchmarking. In analyzing competitive market data for the purpose of determining the market median for 2015, we drew from two independent sources.