E.F. HUTTON <EFH> UNIT'S PUROLATOR OFFER EXPIRES
E.F. Hutton LBO Inc said the tender
offer by its wholly owned unit, PC Acquisition Inc, for
Purolator Courier Corp <PCC> expired at 2400 EDT yesterday
without the purchase of any Purolator common stock.
    Hutton added that PC Acquisition also terminated its merger
agreement with Purolator.
    Hutton said the offer, which had been conditioned upon the
tender of at least 5,116,892 Purolator shares, or about
two-thirds of the outstanding shares, was terminated because
the minimum number of shares was not tendered.
    Purolator had entered into a definitive agreement with PC
Acquisition, part-owned by E.F. Hutton LBO Inc, a unit of E.F.
Hutton, and some officers of Purolator's U.S. courier division,
in which PC offered to purchase 6,332,471 Purolator common
stock shares for 35 dlrs a share.
    Following that move, PC Acquisition planned to merge a
subsidiary into Purolator, converting all outstanding Purolator
common it did not own into an aggregate 46 mln dlrs principal
amount of 12 pct guaranteed debentures due 2002 and warrants to
purchase 15 pct of a Purolator unit comprised of Purolator's
U.S courier operations.
    Hutton said as of 2400 EDT yesterday about 181,000 shares
of Purolator common stock, or about 2.4 pct of the outstanding
shares, had been validly tendered and not withdrawn.
    PC Acquisition has instructed its depository for the offer
to return promptly the Purolator stock deposited by, or on
behalf of, tendering shareholders, Hutton said.
 Reuter
