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Deluxe Launches Tender Offer for New England Business Service,
Inc.
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Deluxe Corporation
announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary has commenced a previously
announced tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of common stock of New
England Business Service, Inc. at $44.00 per share, net to seller, in cash.
The tender offer is being made pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger,
dated as of May 17, 2004. The tender offer will expire at 11:59 p.m. EDT, June
23, 2004 unless extended. The offer is conditioned upon, among other things,
there being validly tendered and not withdrawn more than 67 percent of shares
outstanding of New England Business Service, on a fully diluted basis. The
Bank of New York is the Depositary for the tender offer and Georgeson
Shareholder Communications Inc. is the Information Agent.
This announcement is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an
offer to sell shares of New England Business Service, Inc. Deluxe is filing a
tender offer statement today with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
and New England Business Service is filing a solicitation/recommendation
statement with respect to the offer. New England Business Service shareholders
are advised to read the tender offer statement regarding the acquisition of New
England Business Service referenced in this news release, and the related
solicitation/recommendation statement. The tender offer statement and the
solicitation/ recommendation statement contain important information which
should be read carefully before any decision is made with respect the offer.
These documents will be made available to all shareholders of New England
Business service at no expense to them. These documents will also be available
at no charge on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov/ .
About Deluxe Corporation
Deluxe Corporation provides personal and business checks, business forms,
labels, personalized stamps, fraud prevention services and customer retention
programs to banks, credit unions, financial services companies, consumers and
small businesses. The Deluxe group of businesses reaches clients and customers
through a number of distribution channels: the Internet, direct mail, the
telephone and a nationwide sales force. Since its beginning in 1915, Deluxe
Corporation has been instrumental in shaping the U.S. payments industry. More
information about Deluxe can be found at http://www.deluxe.com/ .
About New England Business Service, Inc.
NEBS is a leading business-to-business company with approximately 3.1 million
active small business customers in the United States, Canada, the United
Kingdom and France. It supplies a wide variety of business products and
services including checks, forms, packaging supplies, embossed foil anniversary
seals and other printed material which are marketed through direct mail,
telesales, a direct sales force, dealers, dedicated distributors and the
Internet. NEBS also designs, embroiders and sells specialty apparel products
through distributors and independent sales representatives to the promotional
products/advertising specialty industry, primarily in the United States. More
information about NEBS can be found at http://www.nebs.com/ .
DATASOURCE: Deluxe Corporation
CONTACT: Stuart Alexander, Vice President, Investor Relations,
+1-651-483-7358, or Douglas J. Treff, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer, +1-651-787-1587, both of Deluxe Corporation
Web site: http://www.deluxe.com/
http://www.nebs.com/