AbitibiBowater (ABH) Brings Stake in Fibrek to 53.8%

AbitibiBowater Inc., doing business as Resolute Forest Products (NYSE: ABH) has taken up and accepted for payment 4,893,197 additional shares of Fibrek Inc. deposited to its offer as of the close of business today. Together with the shares the Company acquired up to and including May 2, Resolute now holds approximately 53.8% of the currently outstanding shares. As aggregate consideration for the shares taken up today, Resolute will distribute approximately 139,000 newly-issued shares of its common stock and CAD$2.7 million in cash through RFP Acquisition Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary.

The offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Fibrek made by Resolute, together with RFP Acquisition Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary, is more fully described in the offer circular and other ancillary documentation that Resolute filed on December 15, 2011, on the "SEDAR" website maintained by the Canadian Securities Administrators, as varied and extended. As further described in the offer circular and other ancillary documentation related to the offer (as amended), Resolute intends to carry out a second step transaction to acquire the Fibrek shares not deposited in the offer.

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