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Matthews International Corporation announces Executive
Appointments
PITTSBURGH,
PA, February 23, 2009 -- Matthews International Corporation
(NASDAQ: MATW) today announced two executive appointments.
Jennifer A. Ciccone has been appointed Vice President, Human
Resources for the Company.
Ms. Ciccone had been Director, Corporate Human
Resources since 2006.
Ms. Ciccone joined the Company in 1998 and has held
various managerial positions within the Company’s Human
Resources Department.
Brian D. Walters has been appointed Vice President and
General Counsel for the Company.
Mr. Walters joined Matthews as Corporate Legal
Counsel in 2005.
Prior to 2005, Mr. Walters was a partner with Fried,
Kane, Walters, Zuschlag & Grochmal, a law firm in
Pittsburgh, PA.
Matthews International Corporation,
headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
is a designer, manufacturer and marketer principally of
memorialization products and brand solutions.
Memorialization products consist primarily of bronze
memorials and other memorialization products, caskets and
cremation equipment for the cemetery and funeral home
industries.
Brand solutions include graphics imaging products and
services, marking products, and merchandising solutions.
The Company’s products and services include cast
bronze memorials and other memorialization products;
caskets; cast and etched architectural products; cremation
equipment and cremation-related products; mausoleums; brand
management; printing plates and cylinders, pre-press
services and imaging services for the primary packaging and
corrugated industries; marking and coding equipment and
consumables, and industrial automation products for
identifying, tracking and conveying various consumer and
industrial products, components and packaging containers;
and merchandising display systems and marketing and design
services.
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