ACCO Brands Shareholders Approve Merger with MeadWestvaco's Consumer & Office Products Business

ACCO Brands Corporation ABD announced today that at a special meeting of shareholders, ACCO Brands shareholders overwhelmingly approved a proposal to issue the ACCO Brands common stock necessary to complete the merger of MeadWestvaco Corporation's MWV Consumer & Office Products business with a wholly owned subsidiary of ACCO Brands. As previously announced, on November 17, 2011, ACCO Brands and MeadWestvaco signed a definitive agreement to merge MeadWestvaco's Consumer & Office Products business into ACCO Brands in a transaction which was valued at approximately $860 million at the time of the announcement. Upon completion of the transaction, MeadWestvaco shareholders will own 50.5 percent of the combined company.
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