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J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated are the joint book-running managers for this offering. Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Lazard Capital Markets LLC and UBS Securities LLC are acting as co-managers for the offering.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities in any jurisdiction to any person to whom it is unlawful to make an offer, solicitation or sale in such jurisdiction.
Copies of the prospectus and prospectus supplement relating to the shares
of common stock offered in this offering may be obtained from the offices of
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. at Prospectus Library, 4 Chase Metrotech Center,
CS Level,
Progress Energy (NYSE: PGN), headquartered in
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SOURCE Progress Energy, Inc.