News Release 800 West Bryn Mawr Avenue Itasca, Illinois 60143-1594 Contact: Carla Pondel Investor Relations 630/775-4228 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 26, 1997 BOISE CASCADE OFFICE PRODUCTS ISSUES EQUITY ITASCA, Illinois -- Boise Cascade Office Products Corporation (NYSE:BOP) announced today that it issued 2,250,000 shares of unregistered common stock to Boise Cascade Corporation (NYSE:BCC) on September 25. The shares were priced at $21.5495 each, for total proceeds of $48,486,375. The proceeds will be used to reduce BCOP's short-term borrowings and for general corporate purposes. Also, BOP has estimated that the recent UPS strike is expected to negatively impact the company's third quarter earnings by two to three cents per share. Boise Cascade Office Products Corporation, headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, is one of the world's premier business-to-business distributors of products for the office, with operations in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.