Mesirow Advises Oliver Products on its Sale to an Affiliate of Berwind Corp.

CHICAGO—April 23, 2012—Mesirow Financial, Inc. acted as exclusive financial advisor to Oliver Products Company (“Oliver Products” or the “Company”) in its sale to an affiliate of Berwind Corporation (“Berwind”), a family-owned investment management company.

Oliver Products, headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is one of the world’s leading producers of sterile-grade medical device packaging and pharmaceutical packaging, producing the industry’s highest quality and most innovative products. The Company sells its healthcare packaging products to nearly every major, globally-recognized medical device company. Additionally, the Company, through its food packaging & equipment segment, is the largest supplier in complete food packaging solutions for Meals on Wheels in the United States. Oliver Products was a portfolio company of Mason Wells, a leading Midwest-based private equity firm.