"Our goal is to become a one-stop shop for our clients' total image needs. As a marketing partner through image management, we focus on methods to help them sell more of their products.

The Image of Matthews Packaging Graphics

Everyone has heard the expression that it's "what's on the inside that counts," but Matthews Packaging Graphics has a different slant on that maxim. For this division, image is everything. That's because Matthews Packaging Graphics is a leading provider of pre-press and imaging systems used by corrugated and flexible packaging manufacturers to reproduce text, graphics, logos, bar codes and other details on packaging materials.

These packaging materials are used to ship products that line most grocery store shelves, and whether it's the corrugated box of the film or folding carton, Matthews may have designed the images and produced the tooling that puts the image on the package.

During the past decade, the Matthews Packaging Graphics has been broadening its product lines to become a full-service supplier to its clients who range from Anheuser-Busch to Procter & Gamble. Today, the Division not only supplies printing plates and cutting dies for creating multi-dimensional packages and store displays, but also provides the following service, through the Brand Solutions Group:

* Creative design services to the packaging industry and its end users.
* Electronically-created art, color separations, films and digital scans, known in the industry as "pre-press services".
* Media asset management, audio, video, animation, digital photography, commercial printing and web site development to ad agencies, manufacturers, printers, and publishers.

Matthews Packaging Graphics has developed a progressive program called Total Image Management Expertise (TIME) that enables Matthews to simultaneously market a customer's corporate image and product lines through print, packaging, multimedia, video and the Internet. This Internet-based program improves speed to market and gives clients a major competitive advantage because it reduces graphic development lead times and personal involvement, ensures image consistency, and provides worldwide accessibility and distribution.

The TIME system involves digital design, photography, innovative pre-press services, digital printing, Internet services, multimedia, packaging, Computer-To-Plate (CTP) technology, six-color offset printing, corrugated packaging support and facilities management partnerships.

"Competition in this industry is strong. However, we are one of the largest operations in the industry. Through our computer network, we have tied our worldwide facilities closer together to consistently exceed our clients' expectations."

"People working together to exceed our clients' various imaging demands contributes to our international image as a leading industry supplier."