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January 12, 2024
Grant E. Fitz
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Myers Industries Inc
1293 South Main Street
Akron, Ohio 44301
Re: Myers Industries
Inc
Definitive Proxy
Statement on Schedule 14A
Filed March 21,
2023
File No. 001-08524
Dear Grant E. Fitz:
We have limited our review of your most recent definitive proxy
statement to those issues
we have addressed in our comments. Please respond to these comments by
confirming that you
will revise your future proxy disclosures in accordance with the topics
discussed below.
Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed March 21, 2023
Pay versus Performance, page 48
1. Please identify each
named executive officer included in the calculation of average non-
PEO named executive
officer compensation, and the fiscal years in which such persons
are included. You may
provide this information in a footnote to the pay versus
performance table. See
Regulation S-K Item 402(v)(3).
2. Refer to the
reconciliation tables in footnotes (2)(b), (4)(b) and (6)(a) to your pay versus
performance table. It
is unclear what amounts are reflected in the column titled "Year over
Year Change in Fair
Value of Equity Awards Granted in Prior Years that Vested in the
Year." Specifically,
equity awards granted in prior years that vest during the relevant year
should be valued as the
difference between the fair value as of the end of the prior fiscal
year and the vesting
date, not the "year over year" change in value. Please ensure that your
table headings reflect
accurately the amounts used to calculate compensation actually
paid. Refer to Item
402(v)(2)(C)(iv) of Regulation S-K.
3. Refer to the bar charts
you have provided to demonstrate the relationships between
various performance
measures in the pay versus performance table and compensation
actually paid, as
required by Regulation S-K Item 402(v)(5). We note from your pay
versus performance
table that you had more than one person serve as your PEO in fiscal
year 2020; however, it
appears that the relationship charts may not reflect both of these
Grant E. Fitz
Myers Industries Inc
January 12, 2024
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individuals, either separately or in the aggregate. Specifically, the
bar representing the
PEO pay for 2020 appears to be lower than the aggregate amount paid to
your two PEOs
in that year, and the charts do not include an alternative
presentation of separate bars for
each PEO. In addition, consider labeling your y axes for readability.
Please ensure that
your disclosure under Regulation S-K Item 402(v)(5) clearly shows the
required
relationship disclosures and includes the compensation actually paid
to each of the
required named executive officers. See also Regulation S-K Compliance
& Disclosure
Interpretation 128D.13.
4. We note that you have included two peer groups in your pay versus
performance table,
although Item 402(v)(1) and (v)(2)(iv) of Regulation S-K contemplate
inclusion of a
single peer group. If you include in your pay versus performance table
information in
addition to that specified in Regulation S-K Item 402(v)(1)(a) (h),
please ensure that any
additional disclosure is "clearly identified as supplemental, not
misleading, and not
presented with greater prominence than the required disclosure." See
Pay Versus
Performance, Release No. 34-95607 (August 25, 2022 [87 FR 55134
(September 8,
2022)] at Section II.F.3.
Please contact Eranga Dias at 202-551-8107 or Amanda Ravitz at
202-551-3412 with any
other questions.
FirstName LastNameGrant E. Fitz Sincerely,
Comapany NameMyers Industries Inc
Division of
Corporation Finance
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