2007-05-31 07:00:00 CEST

2007-05-31 07:00:00 CEST


REGULATED INFORMATION

Atria Yhtymä - Company Announcement

RESOLUTION ON THE SHARE OFFERING, THE OFFER PRICE AND ALLOCATION OF ATRIA GROUP PLC'S SHARES


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On 18 May, 2007, Atria Group Plc's ('Atria' or the 'Company') Board of Directors
announced that it has on the basis of an authorisation given by the Company's   
Annual General Meeting on 3 May 2007 decided to start the marketing of an       
offering of new shares to investors in deviation from the shareholders'         
pre-emptive subscription right ('Offering'). In its meeting held on 30 May 2007,
the Board of Directors of Atria has decided to carry out the Offering and that a
total of 4,500,000 new series A shares will be issued in the Offering, which    
shares correspond to approximately 19.5 per cent of the total number of Atria's 
outstanding shares and approximately 4.2 per cent of the total voting rights    
attaching to the Company's shares prior to the Offering. After the Offering, the
said new series A shares correspond to approximately 16.3 per cent of the total 
number of Atria's outstanding shares and approximately 4.1 per cent of the total
number of votes attaching to the Company's shares.                              

Based on the subscription commitments received from institutional investors and 
the trading price of the Company's series A shares it has been resolved that the
subscription price in the institutional offering and in the retail offering is  
EUR 23 per share.                                                               

Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Offering published by Atria on 18   
May 2007, a total of 4,000,000 new series A shares were preliminarily being     
offered in the institutional offering and a total of a minimum of 500,000 new   
series A shares were being offered in the retail offering. In total,            
subscription commitments corresponding to approximately 7.4 million series A    
shares were made in the Offering. Subscription commitments corresponding to     
approximately 6.0 million series A shares where made at least at the final      
subscription price, EUR 23 per share.                                           

The Board of Directors has decided that a total of 3,612,838 new series A shares
will be issued in the institutional offering and a total of 887,162 new series A
shares will be issued in the retail offering. A total of 2,444 investors        
submitted subscription commitments in the retail offering. In the retail        
offering, full allocation was given to investors in accordance with the         
subscription commitments. For Lihakunta and Itikka osuuskunta, the cooperatives 
having given subscription undertakings in advance, it was resolved to allocate a
total of 1,869,565 new series A shares in the institutional offering. About 75  
per cent of the shares in the Offering were allocated to Finnish investors and  
about 25 per cent to foreign investors.                                         

Furthermore, in addition to the issuance of the 4,500,000 new series A shares   
described above, the Board of Directors of Atria resolved, in accordance with   
the terms and conditions of the Offering, to grant to Nordea Bank Finland Plc   
('Nordea') the right to at any time within thirty days i.e. on 29 June 2007 at  
the latest to increase the number of new series A shares in the Offering and    
subscribe for up to an aggregate 675,000 additional new series A shares of the  
Company at the subscription price EUR 23 per share, solely to cover             
over-allotments. The final number of these additional shares and the            
subscriptions thereof will be confirmed and announced separately. In the event  
that the additional shares are issued and subscribed for in full, the additional
shares will correspond to approximately 2.4 per cent of the total number of     
Atria's outstanding shares and approximately 0.6 per cent of the total number of
votes attaching to the Company's shares after the Offering.                     

Participants in the institutional offering will be sent a confirmation of the   
accepted subscriptions on or about 31 May 2007.                                 

Participants in the retail offering will be sent a confirmation of accepted     
subscriptions on or about 4 June 2007. Subscription payments in excess of       
allocated amounts in the retail offering will be returned to the bank accounts  
of subscribers on or about 4 June 2007.                                         

Following the subscriptions made, Atria's share capital will increase by a total
of EUR 7,650,000, of which the part relating to the retail offering, EUR        
1,508,175.40 will be registered in the Finnish trade register on or about 1 June
2007 and the part relating to the institutional offering, EUR 6,141,824.60, will
be registered in the trade register on or about 5 June 2007. Following the      
registration of these new series A shares, the Company's share capital will be  
EUR 46,907,637.60, divided into a total of 18,388,747 series A shares and a     
total of 9,203,981 series KII shares. If the additional shares are issued and   
subscribed for in full, the Company's share capital will increase to EUR        
48,055,137.60, divided into 19,063,747 series A shares and 9,203,981 series KII 
shares. In accordance with the terms and conditions of the Offering, the portion
of the subscription price exceeding the aggregate nominal value of the new      
shares will be booked to the paid-up unrestricted equity reserves. Atria's      
proceeds for the Offering (after deducting the estimated expenses) will be      
approximately EUR 100 million. If the additional shares are subscribed for in   
full, the total proceeds will be approximately EUR 115 million.                 

The new shares subscribed in the Offering dividend and provide other shareholder
rights once the share capital increase has been registered in the Trade         
Register.                                                                       

The Company will apply for the listing of the new shares issued in the Offering 
on the official list of the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Trading on the new shares  
is expected to commence on the Helsinki Stock Exchange after the new shares have
been registered with the Finnish Trade Register, that is on or about 1 June 2007
for the new series A shares subscribed for in the retail offering and on or     
about 5 June 2007 for the new series A shares subscribed for in the             
institutional offering. The Company will also apply for the trading on the total
of 900,000 series A shares subscribed and registered in December 2006 to        
commence simultaneously with the new series A shares subscribed for in the      
retail offering. Atria issued a release concerning these shares on 22 December  
2006.                                                                           

As a part of the resolutions relating to the Offering, Atria has today also     
signed an underwriting agreement on customary terms with Nordea acting as the   
manager of the Offering. As previously released, Nordea may, within thirty days,
i.e. between 31 May - 29 June 2007, effect transactions in view of stabilising  
or maintaining the market price of the Company's series A shares at a level     
which might not otherwise prevail in the open market. Nordea may purchase up to 
675,000 of the Company's series A shares in this kind of trading. Furthermore,  
Nordea has informed Atria that it will enter into a share lending agreement with
Lihakunta relating to the settlement and stabilisation.                         


ATRIA GROUP PLC                                                                 

Matti Tikkakoski                                                                
President and CEO                                                               


Further information:                                                            

Matti Tikkakoski, President and CEO of Atria Group Plc, tel: +358 50 2582       
Erkki Roivas, Chief Financial Officer, tel: + 358 400 160893                    


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This document is not a prospectus and as such does not constitute an offer to   
sell securities. Investors should not subscribe for any securities referred to  
in this document, except on the basis of the information contained in a         
prospectus. Offers will not be made directly or indirectly in any jurisdiction  
where prohibited by applicable law or where any registration or prospectus or   
other requirements would apply in addition to those undertaken in Finland.      

These materials are not an offer for sale of securities in the United States or 
in any jurisdiction of the European Economic Area.  Securities may not be       
offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from   
registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Atria Group Plc 
has not registered, and does not intend to register, any portion of any offering
of its securities in the United States, and does not intend to conduct a public 
offering of its securities in the United States.                                

This press release may not be distributed or sent into the United States,       
Australia, Canada or Japan.  This document is only being distributed to and is  
only directed at (i) persons who are outside the United Kingdom or (ii) to      
investment professionals falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services 
and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the Order) or (iii) high 
net worth entities, and other persons to whom it may lawfully be communicated,  
falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (all such persons together  
being referred to as 'relevant persons').  The Offer Shares are only available  
to, and any invitation, offer or agreement to subscribe, purchase or otherwise  
acquire such Offer Shares will be engaged in only with, relevant persons.  Any  
person who is not a relevant person should not act or rely on this press release
or any of its contents.                                                         

This press release is an advertisement for the purposes of applicable measures  
implementing Directive 2003/71/EC (such Directive, together with any applicable 
implementing measures in the relevant home Member State under such Directive,   
the Prospectus Directive).  A prospectus prepared pursuant to the Prospectus    
Directive will be published in Finland and will be available to the public at   
the subscription places for the Offering in Finland. Any offer of securities to 
the public that may be deemed to be made pursuant to this communication in any  
EEA Member State that has implemented Prospectus Directive is only addressed to 
qualified investors in that Member State within the meaning of the Prospectus   
Directive.