Stock exchange release

Flagging notification referred to in Chapter 2, Section 10, of the Securities Markets Act

 
7/27/2010 12:15 PM

KESKO CORPORATION STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 27.07.2010 AT 12.15 1(2)

  
The Kesko Pension Fund (Business ID 0200000-4) has today sold such a number of Kesko A shares owned by it to Kruunuvuoren Satama Oy, that its holding of Kesko Corporation shares, as a percentage of votes carried by all Kesko Corporation shares, falls below 5%, and respectively, the number of votes carried by shares owned by Kruunuvuoren Satama Oy (Business ID 2315359-5) exceeds 5% of votes carried by all Kesko shares.

 

Kesko Pension Fund's holdings after the share transaction:

 

Name of target company: Kesko Corporation (business ID 0109862-8)
 


Share class		  
Number of shares		  
% of shares
% of votes
A share
ISIN: FI0009007900 		 
803,839		  
0.81		  
2.09
B share
ISIN: FI0009000202 		 
1,000,000		  
1.01		  
0.26
 
TOTAL		  
1,803,839		  
1.83		  
2.35

 

Kruunuvuoren Satama Oy's shareholdings after the share transaction:

 

Name of target company: Kesko Corporation (business ID 0109862-8)


Share class		  
Number of shares		                      
% of shares
% of votes
A share
ISIN: FI0009007900 		 
2,635,046		  
2.67		  
6.86
B share:
ISIN: FI0009000202 		 
-		  
-		  
-
 
TOTAL		  
2,635,046		  
2.67		  
6.86

 

The total number of Kesko shares is 98,641,292 of which 31,737,007 are A shares and 66,904,285 are B shares. Each A share carries ten (10) votes and each B share one (1) vote. Consequently, the total number of votes carried by all Kesko shares is 384,274,355.

 

Further information is available from Corporate Counsel Jarkko Karjalainen, telephone +358 1053 22602.

 

 

Kesko Corporation

 

 

 

Harri Utoslahti
Communications Manager

 

 

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