Chief
Financial Officer, Secretary &
Treasurer
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MATTHEWS
INTERNATIONAL
ANNOUNCES
NEW DIRECTOR
PITTSBURGH,
PA, November 15, 2007 -- Matthews International Corporation (NASDAQ NNM: MATW)
announced today that Martin Schlatter was elected to the Matthews Board of
Directors at its November 13, 2007 meeting.
Mr.
Schlatter currently serves as Vice
President and Chief Marketing Officer of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, where he
has
held executive positions, including general manager for Wrigley’s U.S. Business,
since late 2004. Mr. Schlatter joined Wrigley in 2002 and has held
various senior management positions within the company during this
time. Previously he was in leadership positions at Lindt Chocolates
in Switzerland and at Procter & Gamble in Germany and the
U.K. Mr. Schlatter holds a Licentiate in Business
Administration/Economics from HSG University in Switzerland.
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; printing plates, pre-press services and imaging systems for the
primary packaging and corrugated industries; marking equipment and consumables,
and industrial automation products for identifying, tacking and conveying
various consumer and industrial products, components and containers; and
merchandising display systems and marketing and design services.