KapStone: WestRock and KapStone Announce Preliminary Merger Consideration Election Results

WestRock Company and KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation announced the preliminary results of the elections as of 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on September 5, 2018 (the "Election Deadline") made by KapStone stockholders to receive shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Whiskey Holdco, Inc. ("Holdco") as consideration in the acquisition of KapStone by WestRock through Holdco. If the KapStone special meeting of stockholders, currently scheduled for 10:00 a.m. (Central Time) today, September 6, 2018, is delayed to a subsequent date, the Election Deadline will be similarly delayed to a subsequent date, and WestRock and KapStone will announce any such delay and, when determined, the new election deadline.