Ferro Corp. announced that in connection with the resignation of the former President and Chief Executive Officer from the board of directors of the company, a vacancy was created on the board in the class whose term expires at the company's 2015 annual meeting of shareholders. Accordingly, on January 22, 2013, the board reduced the size of the board from ten to nine and additionally, in order to balance the class sizes, Timothy K. Pistell, a current member of the board and one of the four members of the class of the board whose term expires at the company's 2014 annual meeting of shareholders, resigned as a member of the 2014 class and was elected by the board as a member of the 2015 class to fill the vacancy.