The Midland Company Elects New Board Member
July 28 2005 - 5:33PM
PR Newswire (US)
The Midland Company Elects New Board Member -- Declares Regular
Quarterly Dividend CINCINNATI, July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
The Midland Company (NASDAQ:MLAN), a highly focused provider of
specialty insurance products and services, today announced that its
Board of Directors has elected Rene J. Robichaud, President and
Chief Executive Officer of NS Group, Inc. to the Company's Board.
The appointment brings the number of Midland directors to 17. "Rene
is a fine addition to our Board," said Joseph P. Hayden III,
Chairman and Chief Operating Officer. "His decades of experience in
both industry and investment banking complement the expertise of
our other Directors, and no doubt, will add great value to our
Company and our shareholders." Mr. Robichaud joined NS Group, Inc.
in June, 1999 as the company's President and Chief Operating
Officer. In February, 2000 he was promoted to President and Chief
Executive Officer. Prior to joining NS Group, Inc., Mr. Robichaud
spent over 14 years in investment banking. He has held the
positions of Managing Director with Salomon Smith Barney and
Principal with Morgan Stanley & Co. He received his BBA from
the University of Ottawa, magna cum laude, and his MBA from Harvard
University. Mr. Robichaud serves on the Board of the Petroleum
Equipment Suppliers Association. In a separate action, the Board of
Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of 5.625 cents per
share, maintaining the annual dividend at 22.5 cents per share. The
quarterly dividend is payable October 4, 2005 to shareholders of
record on September 21, 2005. The Midland Company presently has
18,908,000 shares outstanding. About the Company Midland, which is
headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a provider of specialty
insurance products and services through its wholly owned
subsidiary, American Modern Insurance Group, which accounts for
approximately 95 percent of Midland's consolidated revenue.
American Modern specializes in writing physical damage insurance
and related coverages on manufactured housing and has expanded to
other specialty insurance products including coverage for
site-built homes, motorcycles, watercraft, snowmobiles,
recreational vehicles, physical damage on long-haul trucks,
extended service contracts, excess and surplus lines coverages,
credit life and related products as well as collateral protection
and mortgage fire products sold to financial institutions and their
customers. Midland also owns a niche transportation business, M/G
Transport Group, which operates a fleet of dry cargo barges for the
movement of dry bulk commodities on the inland waterways. Midland's
common stock is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the
symbol MLAN. Additional information on the company can be found on
the Internet at http://www.midlandcompany.com/ . DATASOURCE: The
Midland Company CONTACT: John I. Von Lehman, Executive Vice
President and CFO of The Midland Company, +1-513-943-7100 Web site:
http://www.midlandcompany.com/
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