ABH (NYSE, TSX)

    MONTREAL, Jan. 27 /CNW Telbec/ - AbitibiBowater Inc. Senior Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer William G. Harvey will present at the
2009 J.P. Morgan Global High Yield and Leveraged Finance Conference in Miami,
Florida on Monday, February 2, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern).
    A copy of the presentation will be available on AbitibiBowater's web
site. Interested parties are invited to use the link provided under "Webcasts
& Presentations" on the Investors page of www.abitibibowater.com.

    AbitibiBowater produces a wide range of newsprint, commercial printing
papers, market pulp and wood products. It is the eighth largest publicly
traded pulp and paper manufacturer in the world. AbitibiBowater owns or
operates 25 pulp and paper facilities and 30 wood products facilities located
in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and South Korea. Marketing
its products in more than 90 countries, the Company is also among the world's
largest recyclers of old newspapers and magazines, and has more third-party
certified sustainable forest land than any other company in the world.
AbitibiBowater's shares trade under the stock symbol ABH on both the New York
Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange.