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    • Media advisory - AbitibiBowater executives to speak at investor conference
      
          ABH (NYSE, TSX)
      
          MONTREAL, Nov. 26 /CNW Telbec/ - AbitibiBowater Inc. Executive Chairman
      John W. Weaver and the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer
      David J. Paterson will speak at the Citi Investment Research Basic Materials
      Symposium in New York, NY, on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, at 11:10 a.m.
      (Eastern).
          Interested parties may access a live audio webcast and obtain a copy of
      the presentation on AbitibiBowater's website at www.abitibibowater.com. A
      replay of the presentation will be available on the company's website within
      24 hours of the presentation and will be archived until January 4, 2008.
      
          AbitibiBowater produces a wide range of newsprint and commercial printing
      papers, market pulp and wood products. It is the eighth largest publicly
      traded pulp and paper manufacturer in the world. Following the required
      divestiture agreed to with the U.S. Department of Justice, AbitibiBowater will
      own or operate 31 pulp and paper facilities and 35 wood products facilities
      located in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and South Korea.
      Marketing its products in more than 80 countries, the Company is also among
      the world's largest recyclers of newspapers and magazines, and has more
      third-party certified sustainable forest land than any other company in the
      world. The Company's shares trade under the stock symbol ABH on both the New
      York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange. To learn more, please
      visit www.abitibibowater.com.
      
      
      
      
      For further information:
      For further information: Investors: Duane Owens, (864) 282-9488,
      duane.owens@abitibibowater.com; Media and Others: Seth Kursman, (514)
      394-2398, seth.kursman@abitibibowater.com