In addition, the board of directors today adopted a majority voting policy for the election of directors.  Under the policy, any director in an uncontested election who receives more "withheld" votes than "for" votes is required to tender his or her resignation to the board's nominating and corporate governance committee, which will recommend to the board whether to accept the resignation or take some other action.  A copy of the majority voting policy is available in the "Corporate Governance" section on the "Investor Relations" page of the Sherwin-Williams website at www.sherwin.com.