Metsäliitto Osuuskunta - Company Announcement

Metsäliitto Cooperative’s participation in Metsä Board’s share offering

Metsä Group Stock Exchange Release 26 February 2015 at 2.45 pm EET


Metsä Board Corporation, part of Metsä Group, has today published a stock
exchange release announcing that the company's Board of Directors has decided
on an approximately EUR 100 million share offering. Metsä Board will use the
gross proceeds from the offering to finance the final steps of the company's
transformation plan. 

As Metsä Board's principal shareholders, Metsäliitto Cooperative and its
subsidiaries have given an irrevocable commitment to subscribe for their
pro-rata share, amounting to approximately EUR 43 million, in the share
offering. 

Metsäliitto Cooperative and its subsidiaries own in total 42.53 percent of the
shares and control 62.25 percent of the voting rights in Metsä Board. 


METSÄ GROUP
Group Communications

For further information, please contact:
Vesa-Pekka Takala, CFO, Metsä Group, tel. +358 (0)10 465 4260
Reeta Kaukiainen, SVP, Communications, Metsä Group, tel. +358 (0)10 465 4541,
+358 (0)50 522 0924 


www.metsagroup.com

Metsä Group is a responsible forest industry group whose products' main raw
material is renewable and sustainably grown Northern wood. Metsä Group focuses
on tissue and cooking papers, fresh forest fibre paperboards, pulp, wood
products, and wood supply and forest services. Its high-quality products
combine renewable raw materials, customer-orientation, sustainable development
and innovation. Metsä Group's sales totalled EUR 5.0 billion in 2014, and it
employs approximately 10,500 people. The Group operates in some 30 countries.
Metsäliitto Cooperative is the parent company of Metsä Group and is owned by
approximately 122,000 Finnish forest owners.