Matthews International Corporation (MATW)
Memorialization products and industrial technologies maker. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed November 21, 2025. Ranked 59 of the 222 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
20%
End of 2028
34%
Employees, annual report
5,500
Leading staffing pattern
Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now20%
- End of 202730%
- End of 202834%
- End of 203035%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 63%
- Becomes checking a model's work 28%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
The filing states over 5,500 employees after the SGK brand business went into a venture, and describes memorialization products and industrial technologies with no counts by segment, so the split is by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 20% now, 30% at the end of 2027, 34% at the end of 2028, 35% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 35% desk work, 15% people work and 50% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 63% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 28% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
5,500 employees as of October 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts 18 countries and more than 145 locations and no U.S. count; North America is 72% of revenue.
The filing: “As of October 31, 2025, the Company and its majority-owned subsidiaries employed over 5,500 people globally in four continents and more than 145 locations and 18 countries around the world.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing | 45% | By description (c): the Memorialization segment makes caskets, granite memorials and other memorial products, and the filing counts no employees by segment. |
| Foundries | 20% | By description (c): the bronze memorials and plaques are cast at its own foundries, the SIC code being nonferrous foundries; no count by plant. |
| Machinery Manufacturing (3331, 3332, 3334, and 3339 only) | 35% | By description (c): the Industrial Technologies segment makes product identification, warehouse automation and energy storage equipment, and the memorialization business makes cremation equipment; no count by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Over 5,500 as of October 31, 2025, against 11,000 a year earlier: the filing describes the Propelis venture, with about 10,000 employees, into which the SGK Brand Solutions business went; the filing names skills in engineering, manufacturing, research and development, plant operations, production, logistics, creative design and corporate functions, with no counts.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- 3M Company (MMM, 60,500 employees)21% now, 37% by 2028
- Mattel, Inc. (MAT, 31,000 employees)23% now, 37% by 2028
- Newell Brands Inc. (NWL, 21,900 employees)19% now, 31% by 2028
- Acushnet Holdings Corp. (GOLF, 7,300 employees)21% now, 34% by 2028
- Brady Corporation (BRC, 6,325 employees)19% now, 31% by 2028
- ACCO Brands Corporation (ACCO, 4,700 employees)20% now, 33% by 2028
- Hasbro, Inc. (HAS, 4,520 employees)23% now, 40% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
3 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing describes a cross-functional AI Council of IT and legal members, led with the chief information security officer, that governs how AI is used across the business as an extension of the cybersecurity program.
- “Matthews has also established a cross-functional Artificial Intelligence ("AI") Council to ensure that artificial intelligence is used legally, ethically, effectively, and commercially successfully across its business.”
- “The Matthews AI Council includes key members of its IT and legal functions, including its Chief Information Security Officer ("CISO").”
- “The Matthews AI Council serves as an extension of its cybersecurity program with a specific focus on artificial intelligence systems.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20253median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 5,500 | 2025-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-30 | 11,000 | 2024-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 12,000 | 2023-11-17 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-30 | 12,000 | 2022-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-30 | 11,000 | 2021-11-19 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-30 | 11,000 | 2020-11-20 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-30 | 11,000 | 2019-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-30 | 11,000 | 2018-11-20 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-30 | 11,000 | 2017-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-30 | 10,300 | 2016-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-30 | 10,300 | 2015-11-24 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-30 | 9,400 | 2014-11-26 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-30 | 5,800 | 2013-11-27 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-30 | 5,400 | 2012-11-27 | 10-K |
| 2011-09-30 | 5,300 | 2011-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2010-09-30 | 4,900 | 2010-11-23 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-30 | 4,500 | 2009-11-24 | 10-K |
| 2008-09-30 | 5,000 | 2008-11-25 | 10-K |
| 2007-09-30 | 4,100 | 2007-11-27 | 10-K |
| 2006-09-30 | 3,900 | 2006-12-13 | 10-K |
| 2005-09-30 | 4,000 | 2005-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2004-09-30 | 3,600 | 2004-12-13 | 10-K |
| 2003-09-30 | 3,000 | 2003-12-18 | 10-K |
| 2002-09-30 | 3,000 | 2002-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2001-09-30 | 2,200 | 2001-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2000-09-30 | 1,800 | 2000-12-22 | 10-K |
| 1999-09-30 | 1,600 | 1999-12-20 | 10-K |
| 1998-09-30 | 1,600 | 1998-12-21 | 10-K |
| 1997-09-30 | 1,500 | 1997-12-19 | 10-K |
| 1996-09-30 | 1,400 | 1996-12-20 | 10-K |
| 1995-09-30 | 1,475 | 1995-12-22 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector's 10,000 is the Propelis venture's workforce, described in the business section; rule 2 takes the stated count of over 5,500 for the company and its majority-owned subsidiaries.
- The data service's segment table carries a label that is not a segment name (Reportable Segment 50%) and is not usable; the split is by description from the segments the filing describes.
- No count by segment, plant or country, so the split by description is loose.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000063296-25-000070, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Matthews International Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 20% now and 34% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Matthews International Corporation's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Matthews International Corporation employ?
- 5,500 as of October 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Matthews International Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 35% desk work, 15% people work and 50% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Matthews International Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 3 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 3 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 20, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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