The York Group Inc. Announces the Completion of the Merger With Matthews International Corporation.Business Editors HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 3, 2001 The York Group Inc. (Nasdaq:YRKG) today announced that it has completed the merger with Matthews International Corporation that York initially announced on May 23, 2001. Matthews has agreed to pay $11.00 per share to York stockholders of record as of the end of trading today. York will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Matthews. Computershare Trust Company of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of has been appointed to serve as the "Paying Agent Paying Agent An agent who accepts payments from the issuer of a security and then distributes the payments to the holders of the security. Also known as a "disbursing agent. ". As such, York stockholders will be advised in writing by the Paying Agent as to the procedure for redeeming their York Group shares. The York Group Inc. is the second leading casket manufacturer in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. with annual sales of approximately $130 million. Matthews International Corporation, headquartered in Pittsburgh, is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer principally of custom-made identification products. The Company's products include cast bronze memorials and other memorialization products, cremators and cremation-related products; mausoleums; printing plates, pre-press services and imaging systems for the corrugated cor·ru·gate v. cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing, cor·ru·gates v.tr. To shape into folds or parallel and alternating ridges and grooves. v.intr. and flexible packaging industries; and marking products and consumables for identifying various consumer and industrial products and containers. Certain of the information relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the Company contained or incorporated by reference herein is "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. All statements included or incorporated by reference or made by management of the Company, other than statements of historical fact regarding the Company, are forward-looking statements. These statements, and all phases of the Company's operations, are subject to risks and uncertainties, any one of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. |
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