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Graphic Packaging Holding Company Announces Increase in Size and Pricing of Secondary Common Stock Offering by Selling Stockholders

Thursday 13. December 2012 - Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE: GPK) today announced that the selling stockholders have increased the size of the previously announced underwritten secondary public offering of 16,500,000 shares of its common stock to 18,500,000 shares and priced the offering at $6.10 per share.

The shares are being sold by certain existing stockholders of the Company. The Company is not selling any shares and will not receive any proceeds from the offering and the total number of shares of its outstanding common stock will not change as a result of the offering.
In connection with the offering, the selling stockholders have granted to the underwriters an option to purchase up to 2,775,000 additional shares of common stock to cover overallotments. The offering is expected to close on December 18, 2012.
Goldman, Sachs & Co., BofA Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank Securities are serving as joint book running managers for the offering and Baird and Oppenheimer & Co. are serving as co-managers.
As previously announced, the Company will repurchase 49,180,327 shares of its common stock from the selling stockholders concurrently with the closing of the offering. The Company will purchase these shares from the selling stockholders at a price per share equal to the public offering price of $6.10. The Company intends to enter into an amendment to its existing credit agreement to provide for an incremental term loan borrowing to fund the share repurchase. The closing of the share repurchase is contingent on the closing of the offering, the funding of the incremental term loan and the execution of the related amendment to the credit agreement. The closing of the offering is not contingent on the closing of the share repurchase, the funding of the incremental term loan or the amendment to the credit agreement.
A shelf registration statement (including a prospectus and prospectus supplement) relating to the offering of the common stock has previously been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and has become effective. Before investing, you should read the prospectus, the prospectus supplement and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for information about the Company and the offering. Copies of the prospectus and related supplement may be obtained by contacting any of the joint book running managers whose contact information is listed below. You may also obtain these documents free of charge by visiting the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov.