Silmäasema Oyj - Changes board/management/auditors

Silmäasema Oyj: Change in Silmäasema Oyj's Management Team

Stock Exchange Release 26 September 2017, at 9.30 a.m.

Director of Marketing and Communications Kati Räihä will not be part of the
Silmäasema management team as of 26 September 2017.

Responsibility for marketing in the management team will be given to Commercial
Director Anna Seppälä.


Additional information

Pasi Kohmo, CEO, Silmäasema, +358 50 331 7015, pasi.kohmo@silmaasema.fi



Silmäasema in brief

Silmäasema is a Finnish company, which offers all products and services for
optical retail and eye healthcare nationwide. Silmäasema is the largest private
eye clinic provider offering eye surgeries and the second largest optical retail
chain with 28.4 per cent market share. The Silmäasema chain has 145 stores and
13 eye clinics as well as eight stores in Estonia. The Silmäasema chain employs
close to 1,000 eye healthcare professionals. In 2016, the Silmäasema chain
conducted around 210,000 optician's eye examinations, 190,000 ophthalmologist's
appointments and over 15,000 cataract and refractive surgeries. Silmäasema's
Group net sales were 101.3 million euros in 2016 and adjusted EBITDA was 12.0
million euros.



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