Resolute to Hold 2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on May 16

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MONTREAL, March 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Resolute Forest Products Inc.
(NYSE: RFP) (TSX: RFP) announced today that it will hold its annual
meeting of stockholders on Thursday, May 16, 2013, at 10:00 a.m.
(Eastern), at the Valhalla Inn, Scandia meeting room, 1 Valhalla Inn
Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario.

About Resolute Forest Products

Resolute Forest Products is a global leader in the forest products
industry with a diverse range of products, including newsprint,
commercial printing papers, market pulp and wood products. The Company
owns or operates over 40 pulp and paper mills and wood products
facilities in the United States, Canada and South Korea, and power
generation assets in Canada. Marketing its products in close to 90
countries, Resolute has third-party certified 100% of its managed
woodlands to at least one of three internationally-recognized
sustainable forest management standards, including 65% certified to the
Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) standards. The shares of Resolute Forest
Products trade under the
stock symbol RFP on both the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto
Stock Exchange.

Resolute and other member companies of the Forest Products Association
of Canada, as well as a number of environmental organizations, are
partners in the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement. The group works to
identify solutions to conservation issues that meet the goal of
balancing equally the three pillars of sustainability linked to human
activities: environmental, social and economic. Resolute is also a
member of the World Wildlife Fund's Climate Savers program, in which
businesses establish ambitious targets to voluntarily reduce greenhouse
gas emissions and work aggressively toward achieving them.

SOURCE Resolute Forest Products Inc.

Investors

Rémi G. Lalonde

Vice President, Investor Relations

514 394-2345

ir@resolutefp.com

Media and Others

Xavier Van Chau

Director, Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility

514 394-3611

xavier.vanchau@resolutefp.com