Genterra Inc. announces agreement to acquire Ninety Ontario Street property and proposes to reorganize its share capital

    TORONTO, Jan. 8 /CNW/ - Genterra Inc. ("Genterra" or the "Company") 
(TSX-V: "GIC.A") announced today that it has agreed to acquire Ninety Ontario
Street Inc. the owner of a five-storey, sixty unit building at 90 Ontario
Street in downtown Toronto for $4,890,000 payable by the issuance of 326,000
Class A Preference Series 1 Shares to be created pursuant to a share capital
reorganization described below. The acquisition will provide the Company with
an income producing asset with gross annual income in excess of $700,000 and
the potential for redevelopment and capital gain appreciation. The
transaction, which is being structured as a share acquisition from First
Ontario Investments Inc., a related party in respect of Genterra, will require
approval of the Company's minority shareholders and the TSX Venture Exchange.
The Company intends to present the transaction to shareholders at its annual
and special meeting of shareholders in March, 2008.
    The Company also announced a proposal to reorganize its share capital by
reclassifying the Class A Subordinate Voting Shares, Class B Multiple Voting
Shares and the six classes of non-voting preferred shares into one class of
voting shares and two classes of non-voting convertible preference shares. One
of the new classes of non-voting preference shares, the Class A Preference
Series 1 Shares, will be issued as consideration for the acquisition of Ninety
Ontario Street Inc. Management explained that the reorganization is designed
to simplify the Company's existing complex share structure and provide the
holders of the Company's preferred shares with an opportunity to convert into
listed voting shares. The reorganization will require the approval of a
two-thirds majority of all votes cast by shareholders of each class of the
Company's outstanding shares voting separately as a class. The reorganization
is subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.

    Genterra Inc. is a management and holding company whose assets include
rental real estate properties and investments.

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to product pricing, competitive market conditions, financial data and other
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with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements
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changes in the assumptions or external factors could produce significantly
different results.

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