) today announced that it is commencing an offer to purchase for cash any and all of its $415,000,000 aggregate principal amount of outstanding 7.25% Series A Senior Notes due 2015 and its 7.25% Series B Senior Notes due 2015 on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in its Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement dated January 5, 2011. AmeriGas Partners also is soliciting consents to certain proposed amendments to eliminate substantially all of the restrictive covenants in the indenture governing the Notes and certain other provisions.