MINNEAPOLIS, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –Liberty Diversified International (LDI) has promoted Dan Zdon to President and Chief Operating Officer. Globally, LDI manufactures and markets products in several industries, including paper and packaging, office products, healthcare, building products and precision machining.

Zdon had been Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since 2009 and assumes the President title previously held by LDI’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mike Fiterman.

“Naming Dan Zdon President acknowledges his role in our family-owned company as a leader, a strategist and a valued executive,” Fiterman said.

Zdon now has daily operating responsibility for each of LDI’s businesses, and will also have management responsibility for the corporate “shared services” unit which provides legal, accounting, IT, human resources and other support to all business units. He has been an LDI employee since 2000 and spent the early part of his LDI career in the Safco Products unit, which markets a broad line of products to enhance office environments, including furniture and workplace organization products.

“Our businesses will continue to thrive with Dan in this expanded position,” Fiterman said. “He’s admired by all of LDI’s key stakeholders customers, employees, shareholders, suppliers and leaders in the communities in which we operate,” he said.

About LDI

Headquartered in New Hope, Minn., LDI is a privately-held family of companies with nearly 1,600 employees operating in the paper and packaging, office products, healthcare, building products and precision machining markets. With roots in the corrugated fiberboard business, the company was founded in 1918. To learn more, visit www.libertydiversified.com.

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