Etteplan Oyj - Changes board/management/auditors

Etteplan streamlines its operational structure to boost organic growth

Hollola, Finland, 2011-01-31 13:00 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- STOCK EXCHANGE
RELEASE, ETTEPLAN OYJ, JANUARY 31, 2011, AT 02:00 P.M. 

Etteplan streamlines its operational structure to boost organic growth

Etteplan's operational structure is streamlined to correspond even better with
the opportunities offered by operating environment. The business is organised,
as of February 1, 2011, in a way that production of design services is combined
into one entity, Etteplan Operations. 

Etteplan's design services continue to include two service portfolios:
expertise services and operational services. Expertise services aim to improve
competitiveness of customers' products by offering flexibly special technical
competence that represents field's best development and experience. The aim of
operational services is to increase efficiency of customers' technical design
and product information as well as to release customer organisation's resources
to its own core business. The service portfolios received good reception from
customers and Etteplan continues to offer and productize services according to
this service division. 

In context of the organisational change the following Management Group
appointments and changes have been made in Etteplan: 

Juha Näkki has been appointed as Vice President, Etteplan Operations.

Niclas Gräns has been appointed as Vice President, Partner Network.

An agreement has been made with Pia Björk, Vice President, Operations
Development that her employment in the company will end as the operations of
Operations Development -unit end. 

As of February 1, 2011 Etteplan Oyj's Management Group consists of Matti
Hyytiäinen, President and CEO; Niclas Gräns, Vice President, Partner Network; 
Per-Anders Gådin, CFO; Peter Jahn, Vice President, Etteplan Enterprise
Solutions; Outi-Maria Liedes, Vice President, HR & Communications and Juha
Näkki, Vice President, Etteplan Operations. 



Hollola, January 31, 2011

Etteplan Oyj

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Etteplan is a specialist in industrial equipment engineering and technical
product information solutions and services. Our customers are global leaders in
their fields and operate in areas like the automotive, aerospace and defence
industries as well as the electricity generation and power transmission
sectors, and material flow management.

Etteplan has comprehensive competence in electronics and embedded systems
development, automation and electrical design, mechanical design and technical
product information solutions and services. 

In 2009, Etteplan had turnover of EUR 98.7 million. Etteplan's shares are
listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd under the ETT1V ticker.