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Article: TIMBER DEAL IS STRUCK PLUM CREEK TO BUY SPINOFF UNIT OF GP.(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- July 19, 2000
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Plum Creek Timber Co. plans to buy the timberlands spinoff of Georgia-Pacific Corp. in a $3 billion stock transaction that will make the Seattle-based company the second-largest private timberland holder in the country.
Plum Creek yesterday announced a deal in which it will swap 1.37 shares of its stock for each share of The Timber Co. Plum Creek will also assume $1 billion in debt, although that will be partially offset by the sale of a note for $350 million, representing the proceeds from the Timber Co.'s recent sale of California timberlands.
The new, larger Plum Creek will hold 7.9 million acres in 19 states, from the Pacific Northwest to the Rockies ...