Article: Fitch Affirms Plum Creek Ratings at 'BBB-'.

CHICAGO -- Fitch has affirmed the 'BBB-' rating of Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc.'s senior unsecured privately placed debt and rated the company's bank debt 'BBB-'. The Rating Outlook is Stable.

Plum Creek is a real estate investment trust with 7.7 million acres of timberland under its control and the second largest private timberland owner in the U.S. The company will harvest nearly 19 million tons of trees this year, a far more stable source of cash flow than that of lumber, plywood, and fiberboard manufacturing, which account for about one-third of annual revenues but a significantly smaller portion of operating income. Operating income is supplemented by the ...

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