Nelson Named Senior Vice President, Sales

MIAMISBURG, Ohio, April 4, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- NewPage announced today that Barry Nelson has joined the company's senior leadership team effective April 1, 2008, as senior vice president, sales. In this position, Mr. Nelson will be responsible for leading the company's strategic and tactical sales initiatives.

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Mr. Nelson has been with NewPage since the inception of the company. Prior to this position, Mr. Nelson was working as vice president of printing sales, leading the sales organizations responsible for merchants, national accounts, publication printers and major cataloguers. He has more than 20 years of experience in sales, order management and sales leadership.

Mr. Nelson holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and a PMD from the Harvard Business School.

About NewPage Corporation

Headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, NewPage Corporation is the largest printing paper manufacturer in North America, based on production capacity, with $4.5 billion in pro forma net sales for the year ended December 31, 2007. The company's product portfolio is the broadest in North America and includes coated freesheet, coated groundwood, supercalendered, newsprint and specialty papers. These papers are used for corporate collateral, commercial printing, magazines, catalogs, books, coupons, newspapers, inserts, packaging applications and direct mail advertising.

NewPage owns paper mills located in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nova Scotia, and Wisconsin. These mills have a total annual production capacity of approximately 5.5 million tons of paper, including approximately 4.3 million tons of coated paper, approximately 920,000 tons of uncoated paper and approximately 300,000 tons of specialty paper, as well as approximately 3.2 million tons of pulp.

For additional information, please visit the company's Web site at www.NewPageCorp.com .