CRAiLAR Announces Formation of Special Committee

VICTORIA, June 1, 2015 /CNW/ - CRAiLAR Technologies Inc. (the "Company") (OTCQB: CRLRF) (TSXV: CL)), which produces and markets CRAiLAR® Flax fiber The Friendliest Fiber On The Planet™, announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a process to identify, examine and consider strategic and financial alternatives available to CRAiLAR. The Board of Directors has established a special committee, comprised of the three independent members of the Board, to oversee the process. Management and the Board of Directors are committed to acting in the best interests of the Corporation and all its stakeholders. 

It is the Corporation's current intention to reduce operating overhead in all locations, and right size the manufacturing of CRAiLAR fiber as soon as feasible.  CRAiLAR will continue to negotiate a replacement Material Purchase Agreement contract with Georgia Pacific, having been provided notice that its existing contract will terminate on November 22, 2015.  The Corporation cautions that there are no assurances or guarantees that this process will result in any transactions or, if any transactions are undertaken, the terms or timing of such transactions.

About CRAiLAR Technologies Inc.

CRAiLAR Technologies Inc. CRAiLAR is focused on bringing cost-effective, sustainable, bast fiber-based products to market that are environmentally friendly natural fiber alternatives with equivalent or superior performance characteristics to cotton, wood or fossil fuel based fibers. The Company's business operations consist primarily of the production of its natural and proprietary CRAiLAR® Flax fibers targeted at the natural yarn and textile industries, as well as the deployment of its CRAiLAR® processing technologies in the cellulose pulp and composites industries. For more information, visit www.crailar.com.

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SOURCE Crailar Technologies Inc.

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