Matthews International Corporation: Update to credit analysis following negative outlook revision
Our credit view of this issuer reflects its leading market position in the deathcare products, offset by elevated financial leverage and weak operating performance.Matthews International is a provider of brand solutions, memorialization products and industrial technologies. The company's reporting segments are: SGK Brand Solutions, which includes brand development, deployment and delivery; Memorialization, which includes a line of memorialization products used primarily in cemeteries, funeral homes and crematories; and Industrial Technologies, which designs, manufactures and distributes a range of marking and coding equipment and consumables, industrial automation solutions, and warehouse automation systems, as well as manufactures and markets products and systems that employ different marking technologies, including laser and ink-jet printing.
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