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To: buenojac who wrote (13216)	2/22/2000 9:20:00 AM
From: MICHEL GUIBERT	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77509

t. Laurent Paperboard Inc SPI Shares issued 49,344,781 2000-02-21 close $23.95 Tuesday Feb 22 2000 The Financial Post reports in its Tuesday edition that one of three United States forest products giants is likely to buy St. Laurent Paperboard, the Montreal-based packaging products group, within a few days for $28 to $30 a share or $1.4-billion to $1.5-billion, according to analysts. Reporter Robert Gibbens says that of the three, Weyerhaeuser, an aggressive acquisitor under the leadership of Steven Rogel, is in the lead, according to the analysts, followed by Georgia Pacific, the second-biggest U.S. forest products group, and Smurfit-Stone Container, the leading U.S. packaging company, which owns MacMillan Bathurst in Canada. While the analysts do not rule out Finland's Metsae-Serla, they do regard International Paper as a long shot. St. Laurent shares rose 45 cents to close at $23.80 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The stock has doubled in the past year, with recovery in containerboard prices and due to takeover talk. (c) Copyright 2000 Canjex Publishing Ltd. canada-stockwatch.com