ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Catalina Marketing
Corporation (NYSE: POS) announced today that Eugene P. Beard, 69, has been
elected to the company's board of directors, increasing the board to eight
members. Mr. Beard will also serve as a member of the company's audit
committee and has been designated as the audit committee financial expert.
Mr. Beard is the chairman and chief executive officer of Westport Asset
Fund, Inc. Until his retirement in 1999, Mr. Beard was vice chairman, finance
and operations of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., a worldwide
advertising and marketing communications group, where he spent almost 20
years.
A retired board member of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., and
chairman of its finance committee, Eugene Beard currently serves on the boards
of directors of 59 Wall St. Fund, Old Westbury Fund, and Mattel Inc.,
(NYSE: MAT).
Mr. Beard is a member of the Advisory Council for Ethics and the
Professions at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government where he
established the Beard Graduate and Faculty Fellowship programs for Ethics in
the Professions. He also founded the Beard Center for Leadership & Ethics in
Business at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University.
Commenting on the announcement, Frederick W. Beinecke, chairman of the
board of Catalina Marketing Corporation, said, "We are pleased to welcome Gene
Beard to our board. Gene's extensive financial, leadership and business
experience will be valuable resources to our company."
Based in St. Petersburg, FL, Catalina Marketing Corporation
(http://www.catalinamarketing.com) was founded 20 years ago based on the premise that
targeting communications based on actual purchase behavior would generate more
effective consumer response. Today, Catalina Marketing combines unparalleled
insight into consumer behavior with dynamic consumer access. This combination
of insight and access provides marketers with the ability to execute behavior-
based marketing programs, ensuring that the right consumer receives the right
message at exactly the right time. Catalina Marketing offers an array of
behavior-based promotional messaging, loyalty programs and direct-to-patient
information. Personally identifiable data that may be collected from the
Company's targeted marketing programs, as well as its research programs, are
never sold or given to any outside party without the express permission of the
consumer.
Certain statements in the preceding paragraphs are forward looking, and
actual results may differ materially. Statements not based on historic facts
involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the changing
market for promotional activities, especially as it relates to policies and
programs of packaged goods and pharmaceutical manufacturers and retailers,
government and regulatory statutes, rules, regulations and policies, the
effect of economic and competitive conditions and seasonal variations, actual
promotional activities and programs with the Company's customers, the pace of
installation of the Company's store network, the success of new services and
businesses and the pace of their implementation, the Company's ability to
maintain favorable client relationships, the timing of completion of the
Company's audits, the timing of the completion of the Company's future SEC
filings, the outcome and impact of an ongoing SEC investigation into certain
of the Company's prior fiscal years, and the outcome and impact of the pending
shareholder class action and derivative lawsuits.
SOURCE Catalina Marketing Corporation
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CONTACT:
Investors, Christopher W. Wolf, Executive
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, +1-727-579-5218, or
Joanne Freiberger, Vice President, Finance, +1-727-579-5116, or
Media, Susan Gear, Executive Director, Marketing,
+1-727-579-5452, all of Catalina Marketing
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