American Reprographics Company Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering of Common Stock

American Reprographics Company Announces Pricing of Initial
Public Offering of Common Stock 


GLENDALE, Calif., Feb. 3  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Reprographics
Company (NYSE:ARP) announced today that it has priced its initial public
offering of 13,350,000 shares of common stock at $13.00 per share for gross
proceeds of $173,550,000.  In the offering, American Reprographics is selling
7,666,667 shares and intends to use the net proceeds of $89,290,000 after
underwriting discount and estimated offering expenses to repurchase preferred
equity and repay a portion of its debt.  Certain of the company's existing
shareholders are selling the remaining 5,683,333 shares, of which 4,695,933
shares will come from funds managed by certain affiliates of Code Hennessy &
Simmons LLC.  The underwriters have an option to purchase up to an additional
2,002,500 shares from selling stockholders, of which up to 1,908,781 shares
would come from funds managed by certain affiliates of Code Hennessy & Simmons
LLC.

Goldman, Sachs & Co. and JP Morgan acted as book-running managers of the
offering.  Credit Suisse First Boston, Robert W. Baird & Co. and CIBC World
Markets acted as co-managers in this offering.

The registration statement relating to the initial public offering of shares of
common stock has been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange
Commission.  This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of such shares of
common stock in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be
unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of
any such state.  The offering of these securities will be made only by means of
a prospectus, copies of which may be obtained from Goldman, Sachs & Co. at 85
Broad Street, New York, NY 10004, Attention:  Prospectus Department (Phone: 
212-902-1171) or J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., One Chase Manhattan Plaza, New
York, NY 10081, Attention: Prospectus Department (Phone: [phone]).

About American Reprographics Company

American Reprographics Company is the leading reprographics company in the
United States, providing business-to-business document management services to
the architectural, engineering and construction industry, or AEC industry.  It
also provides these services to companies in non-AEC industries that also
require sophisticated document management services. 

DATASOURCE: American Reprographics Company



CONTACT:  David Stickney, Director of Corporate Communications of

American Reprographics Company, [phone], or ; or

Jason Golz or Jordan Goldstein both of Financial Dynamics, [phone], or

, for American Reprographics Company



Web site:  http://www.e-arc.com/ 

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