NEW YORK, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- U.S. Timberlands Company, L.P.
(OTC Bulletin Board: TIMBZ.OB) today announced that U.S. Timberlands
Acquisition Co., LLC (an acquisition entity formed by the company's
management) has extended its tender offer to purchase all outstanding common
units of the company at a price of $3.00 per common unit until 12:00,
midnight, New York City time, on February 26, 2003. The tender offer had been
scheduled to expire at 12:00, midnight, New York City time, on February 7,
2003. The period was extended in order to provide additional time for the
satisfaction of certain conditions precedent, which are expected to be
satisfied in a timely manner. To date, approximately 5,941,848 common units
(approximately 61% of the outstanding common units) have been validly tendered
and not withdrawn pursuant to the tender offer. This amount does not include
the additional 1,542,270 common units (approximately an additional 16% of the
outstanding common units) currently owned by the offerors and their
affiliates.
This announcement is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an
offer to sell U.S. Timberlands Company, L.P. common units. The tender offer is
only being made through an offer to purchase, letter of transmittal and
related tender offer materials. U.S. Timberlands Acquisition Co., LLC has
filed these tender offer materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission
and U.S. Timberlands Company, L.P. has filed a solicitation/recommendation
statement with respect to the offer. The tender offer materials and the
solicitation/recommendation statement contain important information.
Unitholders are urged to read this information carefully before making any
decisions about the tender offer. The tender offer materials, certain other
offer materials, and the solicitation/recommendation statement have been sent
free of charge to all common unit holders of U.S. Timberlands Company, L.P.
All of these materials are also available free of charge at the SEC's website
at http://www.sec.gov or by contacting the Information Agent, Innisfree M&A
Incorporated at (212) 750-5833 or (888) 750-5834.
U.S. Timberlands Company, L.P. and its affiliate own 670,000 fee acres of
timberland and cutting rights on 3,700 acres of timberland containing total
merchantable timber volume estimated to be approximately 1.9 billion board
feet in Oregon and Washington, east of the Cascade Range. U.S. Timberlands
specializes in the growing of trees and the sale of logs and standing timber.
Logs harvested from the timberlands are sold to unaffiliated domestic
conversion facilities. These logs are processed for sale as lumber,
molding products, doors, millwork, commodity, specialty and overlaid plywood
products, laminated veneer lumber, engineered wood I-beams, particleboard,
hardboard, paper and other wood products. These products are used in
residential, commercial and industrial construction, home remodeling and
repair and general industrial applications as well as a variety of paper
products. U.S. Timberlands also owns and operates its own seed orchard and
produces approximately five million conifer seedlings annually from its
nursery, approximately half of which are used for its own internal
reforestation programs, with the balance sold to other forest products
companies.
Certain information discussed in this press release may constitute
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal securities laws.
Although U.S. Timberlands believes that expectations reflected in such
forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give
no assurance that its expectations will be achieved. Forward-looking
information is subject to certain risks, trends, and uncertainties that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Such risks,
trends and uncertainties include the highly cyclical nature of the forest
products industry, economic conditions in export markets, the possibility that
timber supply could increase if governmental, environmental or endangered
species policies change, and limitations on U.S. Timberlands' ability to
harvest its timber due to adverse natural conditions or increased governmental
restrictions. For a more complete description of factors, which could impact
U.S. Timberlands and the statements contained herein, reference should be made
to U.S. Timberlands' filings with the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission.
SOURCE U.S. Timberlands Company, L.P.
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CONTACT:
Thomas C. Ludlow, Chief Financial Officer of
U.S. Timberlands Company, L.P., +1-212-755-1100
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