Eugene P. Beard Elected to Board of Directors of Catalina Marketing Corporation
July 08 2004 - 9:18AM
PR Newswire (US)
Eugene P. Beard Elected to Board of Directors of Catalina Marketing
Corporation 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.
DATASOURCE: Catalina Marketing Corporation 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 Web site:
http://www.catalinamarketing.com/
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