Sampo - Changes in company's own shares

Cancellation of Sampo A shares

SAMPO PLC        STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE       13 December 2011 at 9.50 am


Cancellation of Sampo A shares

The Board of Sampo plc has today decided to cancel 1,282,390 Sampo A shares
repurchased in the third quarter of 2011 according to the authorization by the
Annual General Meeting. The cancellation reduces the number of Sampo A shares
with the corresponding amount.

Once the cancellation is entered into the trade register, the number of Sampo
plc's A shares totals 558,800,000. Total number of shares of the company,
including 1,200,000 B shares, is 560,000,000 shares.


SAMPO PLC

Jarmo Salonen
Head of Investor Relations and Group Communications
tel. +358 10 516 0030



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Financial Supervisory Authority
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