ANDERSON PACKAGING SUPPORTS HURRICANE RELIEF EFFORTS
10-19-2005

Anderson Packaging has shown its support for its friends in the Gulf Coast Region recently by providing both financial support and relief aid assistance for the disaster recovery effort. Anderson employees made a financial contribution of $11,000 and Anderson Packaging as a corporation matched that contribution totaling $22,000. Anderson’s parent company, AmerisourceBergen, provided it’s own financial contribution exceeding $700,000. This amount was raised both by the corporation and the AmerisourceBergen employees themselves through a corporate match program.

In addition to financial support, Anderson Packaging employee Vicky Brown traveled to the region to lend assistance to victims and the relief effort on behalf of the company and the Red Cross, for which she has been a volunteer for more than 25 years. Ms. Brown provided assistance as an aid worker in the communications effort over a three-week period in September, focusing on the ravaged Mississippi Gulf Coast area. She provided assistance directly in shelters and in coordinating efforts between shelters.

“What I saw in the region is really difficult to describe”, said Ms.Brown. “The level of devastation is really hard to comprehend without witnessing it firsthand. In addition to the destruction to the hotels and businesses, over 150,000 houses were devastated just in that three-country region of Mississippi that I visited. When I arrived, the Red Cross had already served over 25,000,000 meals to victims. These people are completely dependent on the Red Cross effort because their homes, jobs, and livelihood have been stripped away. There were more than 270,000 people stationed in the few hotels that remained. That is in addition to the people residing in the various Red Cross shelters in the region. This hurricane relief effort is already the largest feeding initiative in the history of the Red Cross. There is also a wide scale effort to get money directly into the hands of the victims. For the majority of these people, their life and financial security has been completely stripped away from them, practically overnight.”

According to Jim Peterson, Vice President of Human Resources, “Anderson has always had a commitment to the community and this tragedy is no exception. These people who have been displaced and had their lives turned upside down are our friends, coworkers, and family. We felt we owed it to them to make whatever efforts we could to help in their recovery.”

Personal Red Cross Contributions
To provide your own financial donation or provide volunteer assistance, please contact the American Red Cross at (800) HELP-NOW or www.redcross.org.

About Anderson Packaging

Anderson Packaging, a wholly owned subsidiary of the AmerisourceBergen Corporation, is one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical contract packagers in the United States. With extensive experience in new-product launches and process startup, Anderson offers specialized services such as package development, including design of child-resistant and patient compliance prompting features, as well as process development, including in-house tooling design and manufacture. Anderson also maintains one of the most progressive process, facilities and validation programs in the contract packaging industry, while maintaining a record of superior quality and service.

For additional information regarding Anderson’s relief effort, please contact Justin Schroeder, Marketing Manager, JSchroeder@andpkg.com, (815) 484-8900.