Vacon - Major shareholder announcements

Disclosure under Chapter 2, Section 10 of the Securities Market Act

Vacon Plc, Stock Exchange Release, 20 November, 2012 at 9.30 am (EET)

Vacon Plc (ID 1519966-5) has on November 19, 2012, received a disclosure under
Chapter 2, Section 9 of the Securities Market Act, according to which the
holding of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and its group's shareholding in Vacon Plc
has exceeded the threshold of 5% of the company's shares and voting rights.

According to the disclosure, the combined direct and indirect shareholding of
Ameriprise Financial and its group is now 772,623 Vacon Plc's shares, which is
5.05% of Vacon Plc's shares and votes.

Exceeding the above-mentioned limit is the result of the purchase of shares on
November 16, 2012.

Vacon Plc has a total of 15,295,000 shares. The company has only one class of
shares and each share entitles to one vote.

VACON PLC

Further information:

  * President and CEO, Vesa Laisi, Phone +358 (0)40 837 1510, e-mail
    vesa.laisi(at)vacon.com

Vacon in brief:

Vacon is driven by a passion to develop, manufacture and sell the best AC drives
and inverters in the world - and provide customers with efficient product
lifecycle services. Our AC drives offer optimum process control and energy
efficiency for electric motors. Vacon inverters play a key role when energy is
produced from renewable sources. Vacon has production and R&D facilities in
Europe, Asia and North America, and sales offices in 27 countries. Further,
Vacon has sales representatives and service partners in nearly 90 countries. The
shares of Vacon Plc (VAC1V) are quoted on the main list of the Helsinki stock
exchange (NASDAQ OMX Helsinki).

www.vacon.com

Distribution:

NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
Financial Supervisory Authority
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