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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-338050"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MATW"
cik: "0000063296"
company_name: "MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL CORP"
filed_at: "2025-12-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T11:56:42.654785+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Matthews completes sale of Warehouse Automation business for $232.1M total consideration

## Summary
- Sale to Duravant LLC closed Dec 31, 2025; cash proceeds of $225.4M plus liability assumption.
- Warehouse Automation business generated $72M in sales in fiscal 2025.
- Net proceeds will be used to significantly reduce outstanding debt toward 2.5x leverage goal.
- Company's strategic alternatives review remains ongoing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-338050
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MATW
- cik: 0000063296
- company_name: MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL CORP
- filed_at: 2025-12-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63296/000119312525338050/0001193125-25-338050-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63296/000119312525338050/d38487d8k.htm

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## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 3e291661d9aa1d1467ab23eaba39be1dd9da9b2d
  claim: MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL CORP completed a disposition involving Duravant LLC for approximately $232 million (closed 2025-12-31).
  evidence_excerpt: On December 31, 2025 (the “Closing Date”), Matthews International Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation (“Matthews” or the “Company”), completed the sale of its interests in Matthews Automation Solutions, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Matthews (the “Transferred Entity”), and certain related assets to Duravant LLC (the “Buyer”) pursuant to the terms of an Equity Purchase Agreement dated as of November 12, 2025 by and among Matthews and the Buyer, which was filed as Exhibit 2.1 to that Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC on November 13, 2025 . On the Closing Date, consideration of approximately $232 million was transferred to Matthews, representing cash consideration of $225.4 million plus the assumption of certain liabilities related to the business of the Transferred Entity.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63296/000119312525338050/0001193125-25-338050-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.