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requirements. Europe currently regulates emissions from our motorcycles and certain of our ATV-based
products, and these products meet the applicable requirements. The European Parliament and Council in 2013
issued new regulations that will change these European emission requirements as early as 2016. The details of
the future EU regulations are being finalized in 2014. Emissions from other Polaris off-road products in the
EU will be covered by the non-road mobile machinery directive, which is also currently being revised. Polaris
is reviewing the technology requirements of these future EU regulations.
We believe that our motorcycles, ORVs and snowmobiles have complied with applicable emission standards
and related regulations in the United States and internationally. We are unable to predict the ultimate impact
of the adopted or proposed regulations on our business. We are currently developing and obtaining engine
and emission technologies to meet the requirements of the future emission standards.
Employees
Due to the seasonality of our business and certain changes in production cycles, total employment levels vary
throughout the year. Despite such variations in employment levels, employee turnover has not been high.
During 2013, on a worldwide basis, we employed an average of approximately 5,400 full-time persons, a
20 percent increase from 2012. Approximately 2,400 of our employees are salaried. We consider our relations
with our employees to be excellent.
Available Information
Our Internet website is http://www.polaris.com. We make available free of charge, on or through our website,
our annual, quarterly and current reports, and any amendments to those reports, as soon as reasonably
practicable after electronically filing such reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We also make
available through our website our corporate governance materials, including our Corporate Governance
Guidelines, the charters of the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, Corporate Governance and
Nominating Committee and Technology Committee of our Board of Directors and our Code of Business
Conduct and Ethics. Any shareholder or other interested party wishing to receive a copy of these corporate
governance materials should write to Polaris Industries Inc., 2100 Highway 55, Medina, Minnesota 55340,
Attention: Investor Relations. Information contained on our website is not part of this report.
Forward-Looking Statements
This 2013 Annual Report contains not only historical information, but also ‘‘forward-looking statements’’
intended to qualify for the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These ‘‘forward-looking statements’’ can generally be identified as such because the context of the statement
will include words such as we or our management ‘‘believes,’’ ‘‘anticipates,’’ ‘‘expects,’’ ‘‘estimates’’ or words of
similar import. Similarly, statements that describe our future plans, objectives or goals are also forward-
looking. Forward-looking statements may also be made from time to time in oral presentations, including
telephone conferences and/or webcasts open to the public. Shareholders, potential investors and others are
cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause results in future
periods to differ materially from those anticipated by some of the statements made in this report, including
the risks and uncertainties described below under the heading entitled ‘‘Item 1A—Risk Factors’’ and
elsewhere in this report. The risks and uncertainties discussed in this report are not exclusive and other
factors that we may consider immaterial or do not anticipate may emerge as significant risks and uncertainties.
Any forward-looking statements made in this report or otherwise speak only as of the date of such statement,
and we undertake no obligation to update such statements to reflect actual results or changes in factors or
assumptions affecting such forward-looking statements. We advise you, however, to consult any further
disclosures made on related subjects in future quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on
Form 8-K that are filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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