BATESVILLE, Ind., March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hillenbrand Industries, Inc. (NYSE: HB) (the "Company") announced the expiration and final results of its previously announced cash tender offer to purchase any and all of its outstanding 4.50 percent Senior Notes due 2009 (CUSIP No. 431573AD6). The tender offer was made pursuant to an Offer to Purchase dated February 29, 2008 (the "Offer to Purchase") and the related Letter of Transmittal, which set forth a more comprehensive description of the terms of the tender offer.
The tender offer expired at 8 a.m., New York City time, on March 31, 2008. $224,265,000 in aggregate principal amount of notes, representing approximately 89.7 percent of the outstanding notes, were validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) in the tender offer.
The Company has waived all of the conditions to the tender offer and has accepted for purchase all of the notes validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) in the tender offer. The Company has paid to the Depository Trust Company the total consideration payable to holders in the tender offer and has irrevocably instructed Global Bondholder Services Corporation, the depositary for the tender offer, to pay the full tender offer consideration or late tender offer consideration, as applicable, plus accrued interest, to the tendering holders on the settlement date, which is tomorrow, April 1, 2008.
Citi and Goldman, Sachs & Co. served as the dealer managers for the tender offer and Global Bondholder Services Corporation served as the depositary and information agent for the tender offer.
ABOUT HILLENBRAND INDUSTRIES, INC.
Hillenbrand Industries is organized into two operating companies
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