AbitibiBowater Inc., doing business as Resolute Forest Products ("Resolute") (NYSE: ABH) (TSX: ABH), has announced that President and Chief Executive Officer Richard Garneau will participate in a panel discussion on transformation in the forest products industry during the CIBC 2012 Whistler Institutional Investor Conference in Whistler, British Columbia, on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, at 4:00 p.m. (Pacific), 7:00 p.m. (Eastern).
A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available at http://webcasts.welcome2theshow.com/whistler2012/forest. A replay of the presentation will be available for six months.
About Resolute Forest Products
Resolute is a global leader in the forest products industry with a diverse range of products, including newsprint, commercial printing papers, market pulp and wood products. Resolute owns or operates 18 pulp and paper mills and 23 wood product facilities in the United States, Canada and South Korea. Marketing its products in close to 90 countries, Resolute has third-party certified 100% of its managed woodlands to sustainable forest management standards. The shares of Resolute trade under the stock symbol ABH on both the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Resolute and other member companies of the Forest Products Association of Canada, as well as a number of environmental organizations, are partners in the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement. The group works to identify solutions to conservation issues that meet the goal of balancing equally the three pillars of sustainability linked to human activities: economic, social and environmental. Resolute is also a member of the World Wildlife Fund's Climate Savers program, in which businesses establish ambitious targets to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions and work aggressively toward achieving them.
