Oriola-KD Corporation Stock Exchange Release 19 March 2009 at 1.15 p.m. Pursuant to the authorisation granted to it by the Annual General Meeting of 13 March 2007, the Board of Directors has today decided on a directed bonus issue, in which a total of 150,480 class B treasury shares will be issued to the company's President and CEO and to certain other members of the Group Management Team and the extended Group Management Team, as part of the Group's share-based incentive scheme for its top management. These shares represent approximately 0.11 per cent of the total number of shares and approximately 0.01 per cent of the total number of votes. The intention is that the class B shares granted in the bonus issue will be assigned to their recipients on 26 March 2009, after which date the shares will carry the same shareholder rights as other class B shares, including the right to dividends for the 2008 financial year. Oriola-KD Corporation Eero Hautaniemi President and CEO Thomas Heinonen General Counsel Distribution: NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd. Key media Released by: Oriola-KD Corporation Corporate Communications Orionintie 5 FI-02200 Espoo, Finland www.oriola-kd.com
Board of Directors decides on a directed bonus issue as a part of share-based incentive scheme
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