Oriola-KD Oyj: Notification on a change in ownership according to chapter 9, section 5 of the Securities Market act

Oriola-KD Corporation Stock Exchange Release 5 May 2015 at 4.30 p.m.

Notification on a change in ownership according to chapter 9, section 5 of the Securities Market act

Oriola-KD Corporation has on April 30, 2015 received from Mariatorp Oy (business ID 1948056-9) a disclosure under Chapter 9, Section 5 of the Securities Markets Act, according to which Mariatorp Oy on April 30, 2015 has signed a demerger plan. Following the completion of the demerger the Oriola-KD shares owned by Mariatorp Oy, a company controlled by Niklas Herlin, will transfer to a newly established company Mariatorp Oy.

The registration of the execution of the demerger is planned to take place on August 31, 2015. After the execution of the demerger, the ownership of the new Maritorp Oy of Oriola-KD Corporation's share capital is 7.43 per cent and total number of voting rights is 7.43 per cent comprising a total of 13,521,147 shares of which 4,200,000 A shares and 9,321,147 B shares.

Oriola-KD Corporation's (business ID 1999215-0) share capital comprises 181,486,213 shares, of which 56,578,452 are A shares and 124,907,761 are B shares. Each A share entitles its holder to twenty (20) votes and each B share to one (1) vote. Thus, the total number of votes is 1,256,476,801.

Oriola-KD Corporation

Eero Hautaniemi
President and CEO

For further information, please contact:

Sami Laine
Group Treasurer
tel. [phone]

Distribution:
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd.
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Oriola-KD Corporation
Corporate Communications
Orionintie 5
FI-02200 Espoo
www.oriola-kd.com

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