Meridian Co., Ltd. Hires North American Marketing Director

2004-01-09 09:01 ET - News Release

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- (Business Wire) -- Jan. 9, 2004

     Meridian Co. Ltd. ("Meridian" or the "Company") (OTC BB:
MRDAF), is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary
Belgium Medical Inc. ("MMI") has hired Mr. William MacLean as
Director of Marketing. Mr. MacLean will be responsible for overseeing
the sales and distribution of the Company's products throughout North
America.
     Mr. MacLean brings over 17 years of experience in the sale of
hospital products, services and concepts. He has won several sales
awards, developed entrepreneurial programs at the Executive and
Director levels of hospitals, and collaborated with VP's of Sales and
Marketing of the top 50 Medical/Surgical Manufacturers in the
execution of their sales strategies within the B.C. region.
     While at Source Medical, he was responsible for managing sales,
gross profit, days sales outstanding (DSO) on $13M dollars of base
business for the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCHA) and the
Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA). While there, he led and
coordinated all the corporate and distributed products and services
for the VCHA and the PHSA.
     While at Baxter Corporation, he acted as Team Leader for Baxter's
eight Corporate Divisions responsible for sales and gross profit of
corporate manufactured and distributor manufactured products, services
and concepts in the BC Healthcare sector.
     "The Company is very pleased to bring Mr. MacLean on board with
Meridian", said Mr. Meong, President of Meridian. "We believe Mr.
MacLean can facilitate the Company's distribution efforts throughout
North America to gain further global exposure of the Company's
products".
     Meridian is a leading supplier of medical devices to the
integrative medicine industries. Meridian combines Eastern and Western
medicine, modern science and electronics technology to produce
state-of-the-art medical devices. Meridian's products successfully
cross all boundaries of health care disciplines and are useful in the
practice of orthodox western medicine, chiropractic, osteopathy,
homeopathy, naturopathy and acupuncture. Meridian is engaged in the
research, development, and sales and marketing of 5 exclusive FDA
approved medical devices.
     This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1993 and Section 21B
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Any statements that express or
involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations,
beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, goals, assumptions or future
events or performances are not statements of historical fact and may
be "forward-looking statements". Forward-looking statements are based
on expectations, estimates and projections at the time the statements
are made that involve a number of risks and uncertainties which could
cause actual results or events to differ materially from those
presently anticipated.

Contacts:

Meridian Co. Ltd.
Craig Auringer, 866-802-1222
or
Belgium Medical Inc. - North American Distribution
Anna Brazier, 604-647-0044
Email: Email: [email protected]