Catalina Marketing (POS) Stockholders Vote in Favor of Merger with Hellman & Friedman

  
    
  
  
    
      Catalina Marketing Corporation (NYSE:POS) announced today that its 
      stockholders voted at a special stockholder meeting to approve the 
      previously announced merger agreement providing for the acquisition of 
      Catalina by funds affiliated with Hellman & Friedman LLC. Stockholders 
      representing approximately 69% of the total number of shares outstanding 
      and entitled to vote voted in favor of the adoption of the merger 
      agreement. Stockholders representing in excess of 84% of the outstanding 
      shares as of the record date, June 28, 2007, were present in person or 
      represented by proxy. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Catalina 
      stockholders will be entitled to receive $32.50 per share in cash, 
      without interest, for each share of Catalina common stock held. The 
      merger is anticipated to close in the fall of 2007.
    
    
      About Catalina Marketing Corporation
    
    
      Based in St. Petersburg, FL, Catalina Marketing Corporation (www.catalinamarketing.com) 
      was founded over 20 years ago based on the premise that targeting 
      communications based on actual purchase behavior would generate more 
      effective consumer response. Today, Catalina Marketing combines 
      unparalleled insight into consumer behavior with dynamic consumer 
      access. This combination of insight and access provides marketers with 
      the ability to execute behavior-based marketing programs, ensuring that 
      the right consumer receives the right message at exactly the right time. 
      Catalina Marketing offers an array of behavior-based promotional 
      messaging, loyalty programs and direct-to-patient information. 
      Personally identifiable data that may be collected from the company's 
      targeted marketing programs, as well as its research programs, are never 
      sold or provided to any outside party without the express permission of 
      the consumer.
    
    
      Cautionary Statement
    
    
      Certain statements in the preceding paragraphs are forward-looking, 
      and actual results may differ materially. Statements not based on 
      historic facts involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not 
      limited to the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances 
      that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement with 
      funds affiliated with Hellman & Friedman LLC, the outcome of any legal 
      proceedings that have been or may be instituted against the company 
      related to the merger agreement; the inability to complete the merger 
      due to the failure to satisfy other conditions to completion of the 
      merger; and risks that the proposed transaction diverts management or 
      disrupts current plans and operations and any potential difficulties in 
      employee retention as a result of the merger and the impact of the 
      substantial indebtedness to be incurred to finance the consummation of 
      the merger.