Coppersmith Capital Announces Nomination of Three Highly-Qualified, Independent Candidates for the Alere Board of Directors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coppersmith Capital Management, LLC (“Coppersmith Capital”), the fifth-largest stockholder of Alere, Inc. (NYSE: ALR) (“Alere”) along with the members of its Section 13(d) group, owning approximately 5.8% of the shares outstanding, announced today that it formally nominated a slate of three highly-qualified and independent director nominees for election to the Board of Directors of Alere at the upcoming 2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.