Proxy Governance Joins ISS, Glass Lewis and Egan Jones in Recommending Arrow International Shareholders Vote to Approve the $45.50 Per Share Merger Wit...( READING Pa. Sept. 14 /- Arrow Int...),Health

READING, Pa., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arrow International, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARRO) today reported that Proxy Governance, Inc. a leading independent proxy voting advisory firm, has advised its clients to vote to approve Arrow's planned $45.50 merger with Teleflex Incorporated (NYSE: TFX) and for the re-election of Arrow's current Board of Directors at the Annual Meeting of Arrow shareholders on September 20, 2007.

Proxy Governance is the fourth proxy advisory firm to recommend a vote for the merger agreement. On September 7, as previously reported, Glass, Lewis & Co. recommended that Arrow shareholders vote to approve the merger agreement with Teleflex and for the election of all of the Arrow director nominees. On September 12, Egan Jones also recommended its clients support the merger and the re-election of the full Arrow Board of Directors and Institutional Shareholders Services (ISS) recommended its clients approve the merger and support the election of a majority of the current Board of Directors.

R. James Macaleer, Chairman commented, "We are pleased with the universal support for the Teleflex merger that we have received from four leading proxy advisory firms. We are also pleased that Glass Lewis, Proxy Governance, and Egan Jones also support the re-election of the full Board of Directors. However, we think that ISS is introducing unnecessary uncertainty into the voting process by recommending that shareholders support two McNeil Trust nominees and withhold votes from five McNeil Trust nominees. We believe that any change in the composition of the Board at this point could be detrimental to the timely completion of the Teleflex merger. We strongly believe that shareholders will benefit by votin
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