Metsäliitto Osuuskunta - Changes board/management/auditors

Martti Asunta continues as Chairman of Metsäliitto Cooperative Board of Directors

Metsä Group Stock Exchange Release 14 January 2015 at 9.00 am EET


The Board of Directors of Metsä Group's parent company Metsäliitto Cooperative
elected in its constituent meeting Martti Asunta, M.Sc. (Forestry), to continue
as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. He has been a member of the Board of
Directors since 2005 and Chairman since 2008. Metsä Group's President and CEO
Kari Jordan acts as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors. 

The compositions of Board of Directors' committees are the following:
- Audit Committee: Arto Hiltunen, Mikael Silvennoinen and Martti Asunta.
- Compensation Committee: Martti Asunta, Arto Hiltunen and Antti Tukeva.


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For further information, please contact:
Miika Arola, General Counsel, Metsä Group, tel. +358 10 465 4205


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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, consumer packaging paperboard, 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 4.9 billion in 2013, and it
employs approximately 11,000 people. The Group operates in some 30 countries.
Metsäliitto Cooperative is the parent company of Metsä Group and is owned by
approximately 123,000 Finnish forest owners.