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Exhibit
99.1
PRESS
RELEASE
Matthews
International Corporation
Corporate
Office
Two
NorthShore Center
Pittsburgh,
PA 15212-5851
Phone:
(412) 442-8200
Fax: (412)
442-8290
Release
date: October 29, 2009
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Contact:
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Steven
F. Nicola
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Chief
Financial Officer, Secretary &
Treasurer
412-442-8262
MATTHEWS
INTERNATIONAL
ANNOUNCES NEW
DIRECTOR
PITTSBURGH,
PA, October 29, 2009 -- Matthews International Corporation (NASDAQ: MATW)
announced that Alvaro Garcia-Tunon was elected to the Company’s Board of
Directors.
Mr. Garcia-Tunon is Senior Vice
President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary for Wabtec Corporation
(“Wabtec”), a provider of products and services for the global rail industry, a
position he has held since 2003. Mr. Garcia-Tunon was Senior Vice
President, Finance of Wabtec from 1999 until 2003. Prior thereto, he
was Vice President and Treasurer of Wabtec. Mr. Garcia-Tunon is
a board member of the Pittsburgh Civic Light Orchestra and Senator John Heinz
History Center. Mr. Garcia-Tunon graduated from the College of
William and Mary with a Juris Doctor degree and is a graduate of the University
of Virginia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce and
Accounting.
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.