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Changes in Ponsse's organisational structure and management team

Vieremä, Finland, 2015-08-17 12:30 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 

Changes in Ponsse's organisational structure and management team

Ponsse Plc will carry out changes in its organisational structure, which causes
also a change in the Ponsse´s management team. The objective of the change is
to improve the efficiency of the factory's delivery chain from the order to the
customer. 

Ponsse's new organisational structure is based on three main processes: sales
and maintenance, the delivery chain, and R&D. In the future, the delivery chain
organisation will be responsible for an area which covers functions from the
receipt of customer orders all the way to production and the delivery of
machines. 

Jarmo Vidgrén, sales and marketing director, will continue in the management of
sales and maintenance, and Juha Inberg, technology and R&D director, will be
responsible for R&D. Ponsse is looking for a new employee in the management of
the delivery chain process who will also replace Juha Haverinen, the current
factory director, in the Group's Management Team. 

“Through this change, we are preparing for a growth in long-term manufacturing
volumes. The new organisational structure clarifies our operations, strengthens
our capacity to respond to our customers' needs, improves productivity, and
allows us to react quickly. Our objective is a high level of customer
satisfaction brought about by an effective, transparent and sustainable
delivery chain. Vieremä is home to the world's most modern forest machine
factory and professional employees, and we are continuously developing our
supplier network. Through these resources, we are able to manufacture PONSSE
forest machines even more effectively than before,” says President and CEO Juho
Nummela. 

Juha Haverinen, who has acted as a factory director since 2008, will transfer
to the position of product manager. The production manager, together with
production operators, will be responsible for factory operations. Esa Penttinen
will begin working as a production manager on 17 August. He has been in the
service of Ponsse since 1996, having worked previously as a project manager for
new products. 

President and CEO Juho Nummela, together with the factory's strategy team, will
be currently responsible for the strategic development of the factory. 


Vieremä, 17 August 2015

PONSSE PLC

Juho Nummela
President and CEO

FURTHER INFORMATION
Juho Nummela, President and CEO, tel. +358 400 495 690



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Ponsse Plc specialises in the sale, production, maintenance and technology of
cut-to-length method forest machines and is driven by genuine interest in its
customers and their business operations. Ponsse develops and manufactures
sustainable and innovative harvesting solutions based on customers' needs. 

The company was established by forest machine entrepreneur Einari Vidgrén in
1970, and it has been a leader in timber harvesting solutions based on the
cut-to-length method ever since. Ponsse is headquartered in Vieremä, Finland.
The company's shares are quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic List. This year,
Ponsse celebrates its 45th anniversary.