Abitibi-Consolidated Appoints Jacques Bougie to Board of Directors A (TSX) ABY (NYSE) MONTREAL, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. (TSX: A; NYSE: ABY) Chairman of the Board Richard Drouin is pleased to announce the appointment of Jacques Bougie to the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Bougie joined Montreal-based Alcan Aluminum Ltd. in 1979 and served as the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer from 1993 to 2001. He holds degrees in law and business administration from the Universite de Montreal, where he also received an honorary doctorate in 2001. Mr. Bougie was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1994. He currently serves as director on the boards of Nova Chemicals Inc., McCain Foods Ltd., Rona Inc. and CGI Group Inc. "I am delighted to welcome Jacques Bougie to the Board," commented John Weaver, President and CEO. "Mr. Bougie is a highly regarded business leader who has met the diverse challenges of a resources-based business. His wealth of knowledge and experience will be of great benefit to Abitibi-Consolidated." Abitibi-Consolidated is a global leader in newsprint & uncoated groundwood (value-added groundwood) papers as well as a major producer of wood products, generating sales of CAN $5.4 billion in 2003. The Company owns or is a partner in 27 paper mills, 22 sawmills, 4 remanufacturing facilities and 1 engineered wood facility in Canada, the US, the UK, South Korea, China and Thailand. With over 15,000 employees, excluding its PanAsia joint venture, Abitibi-Consolidated does business in approximately 70 countries. Responsible for the forest management of 17.5 million hectares of woodlands, the Company is committed to the sustainability of the natural resources in its care. Abitibi-Consolidated is also the world's largest recycler of newspapers and magazines, serving 16 metropolitan areas in Canada and the United States and 130 local authorities in the United Kingdom, with 14 recycling centres and approaching 20,000 Paper Retriever(R) and paper bank containers. DATASOURCE: ABITIBI-CONSOLIDATED INC. CONTACT: Investors: Lorne Gorber, Manager, Investor Relations, (514) 394-2360, ; Media: Marc Osborne, Manager, Corporate Communications and Media Relations, (514) 394-2340;

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