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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000063296-23-000078"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MATW"
cik: "0000063296"
company_name: "MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL CORP"
filed_at: "2023-10-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-09T17:32:34.011297+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Matthews International extends agreement with Barington activist group to 2025

## Summary
- Agreement originally dated December 30, 2022 extended by mutual consent.
- New term runs until 20 business days before nomination deadline for 2025 annual meeting.
- No changes to other terms of the agreement were disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000063296-23-000078
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MATW
- cik: 0000063296
- company_name: MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL CORP
- filed_at: 2023-10-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63296/000006329623000078/0000063296-23-000078-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63296/000006329623000078/matw-20231018.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL CORP amended Agreement with Barington Companies Equity Partners, L.P., Barington Capital Group, L.P., Barington Companies Management, LLC (collectively, "Barington") (effective 2023-10-18).
  - Action: amendment
  - Counterparty: Barington Companies Equity Partners, L.P., Barington Capital Group, L.P., Barington Companies Management, LLC (collectively, "Barington")
  - Effective: 2023-10-18
  source text: On October 18, 2023, Matthews International Corporation (the “Company”) and Barington Companies Equity Partners, L.P. (“Barington Equity”), Barington Capital Group, L.P. (“Barington Capital”) and Barington Companies Management, LLC (“BCM,” and, together with Barington Equity and Barington Capital, “Barington”) agreed to extend the Agreement (the “Agreement”), dated December 30, 2022, by and among the Company and Barington, in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. The term of the Agreement is now extended to the date that is twenty (20) business days prior to the nomination deadline for the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63296/000006329623000078/0000063296-23-000078-index.htm

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