Butler Manufacturing Company Announces Shareholder Meeting to Approve Merger with BlueScope Steel Limited.Business Editors KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 2004 Butler Manufacturing Company (BBR BBR Bureau of Business Research BBR Broadbandreports.com (website) BBR Bending Beam Rheometer BBR Burnt Beyond Repair BBR Black Body Radiation (quantum physics) BBR Baby Back Ribs BBR Back Bone Ring :NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange ) announced today that it will hold a special meeting of its shareholders on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 to vote on the proposed merger with BlueScope Steel (BSL (language) BSL - A variant of IBM's PL/S systems language. Versions: BSL1, BSL2. :AX). The meeting will take place at 10:30 AM CST CST abbr. 1. Central Standard Time 2. convulsive shock treatment CST Central Standard Time Noun 1. at City Stage Theater, Union Station Kansas City, 30 West Pershing Road, Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest in Missouri, which includes counties in both Missouri and Kansas. . Formal notice of the meeting, together with the definitive proxy statement Proxy Statement A document containing the information that a company is required by the SEC to provide to shareholders so they can make informed decisions about matters that will be brought up at an annual stockholder meeting. , is being mailed to shareholders. The proxy is available at www.sec.gov or www.butlermfg.com/investors. Only shareholders of record at the close of business on March 19, 2004 are entitled to vote at the special meeting. Butler Manufacturing Company is the world's leading producer of pre-engineered building systems, a leading supplier of architectural aluminum systems and components, and provides construction and real estate services for the nonresidential construction market. BlueScope Steel, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, is the largest steel producer in Australia and New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. . The Company manufactures steel slab, hot and cold rolled coil, plate, tinplate and metallic painted and coated steel products such as the market-leading COLORBOND(R) and ZINCALUME(R) steel brands. Statements in this press release concerning the company's business outlook or future economic performance; anticipated profitability, revenues, expenses or other financial items, together with other statements that are not historical facts, are "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined under the Federal Securities Laws. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated in such statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, industry cyclicality, fluctuations in customer demand and order pattern, the seasonal nature of the business, changes in pricing or other actions by competitors, and general economic conditions, as well as other risks detailed in the company's 2003 Annual Report to the Securities and Exchange Commission on page 4. The information and opinions contained in this release have been furnished and approved by Butler Manufacturing Company. We are retained by them as investor relations counsel. |
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