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Recent Events Jan  6 Price hit new 52-week low ($21.688) Jan 31 Board Meeting Upcoming Events Mar 10 Dividend payment of $0.20 Mar 28 Earnings Announcement Mar 28 Conference Call Location One American Road Cleveland, OH 44144 Phone: (216) 252-7300 Fax: (216) 252-6778 Email: information@americangreetings.com Employees as of 2/99: 14,700 Financial Links  ·Top Institutional Holders  ·Top Mutual Fund Holders  ·Upgrade/Downgrade History  ·Historical Quote Data  ·Journal Archive  ·Raw SEC Filings Competitors:  ·Sector: Services  ·Industry: Printing & Publishing Company Websites  ·Home Page  ·Subsidiaries  ·Yahoo! Category  ·Search Yahoo! for related links... Index Membership  ·S&P 500 Ownership · Insider: 15% · Over the last 6 months:  · one insider buy; 0  shares · Institutional: 76% (89% of float) (478 institutions) · Net Inst. Selling: 687.0K shares (+1.42%) (prior quarter to latest quarter)

Business Summary American Greetings Corporation creates, manufactures and distributes greeting cards and special occasion products. Greeting cards, gift wrap, paper party goods, candles, balloons, stationery and giftware are manufactured and/or sold in the United States by American Greetings Corporation, Plus Mark, Inc., Carlton Cards Retail, Inc. and other subsidiaries in Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Personalized greeting cards are sold through CreataCard machines. CreataCard Interactive, Inc. markets e-mail greetings, personalized greeting cards and other products through the Company's Website, co-branded Websites and on-line services, and provides design and verse content included in various CD-Rom software products for use on personal computers. Design licensing and character licensing are done by AGC, Inc. and Those Characters From Cleveland, Inc., respectively. Financial Summary AM designs, manufactures and sells everyday and seasonal greeting cards and other social expression products including gift wrap paper, party goods, candles, stationery and giftware. For the nine months ended 11/30/99, revenues fell 3% to $1.56 billion. Net income fell 69% to $38.4 million. Revenues reflect reduced shipments of everyday cards. Net income reflects restructuring expenses related to closure of certain Canadian facilities and higher cost of sales. Officers [Insider Trade Data] FY1999 Compensation Pay Exer Morry Weiss, 59 Chairman, CEO $1.2M $20M Edward Fruchtenbaum, 51 COO, Pres 826K 526K William Meyer, 52 Sr. VP and CFO --   --   Michael Birkholm, 47 Sr. VP --   --   Mary Ann Corrigan-Davis, 45 Sr. VP --   --   Dollar amounts are as of 28-Feb-1999 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year. More from Market Guide: Highlights -Performance - Ratio Comparisons