KONE Oyj - Major shareholder announcements

Announcement pursuant to Securities Markets Act Chapter 2, Section 10

KONE Corporation, stock exchange release, September 7, 2012 at 9.00 a.m. EET

KONE Corporation has on September 5, 2012 received from The Capital Group
Companies, Inc. (Taxpayer I.D. 86-0206507) a notification, according to which a
disaggregation exemption (J No 13/2230/2007) granted by the Finnish Financial
Supervisory Authority no longer applies following a corporate re-organization
effective September 1, 2012, and Capital Research and Management Company and
Capital Group International Inc. will no longer report relevant holdings
separately. The holdings under management will be reported in aggregate by the
group's parent company, The Capital Group Companies Inc.

KONE published a stock exchange release on June 29, 2012 following a
notification from Capital Research and Management Company that its holding had
exceeded five (5) percent (1/20) of the company's shares.

1. The company: KONE Corporation

2. The date for the current holdings: September 3, 2012

3. Exact proportion of share capital and voting rights as of September 3, 2012:
The shares held by the group The Capital Group Companies, Inc. totaled
14,028,100 class B shares. The shares represented 5.3843% of total share capital
and 2.3246% of total voting rights.

For further information, please contact:
Jukka Ala-Mello, Secretary to the Board, tel. +358 (0)204 75 4226



About KONE
KONE is one of the global leaders in the elevator and escalator industry. The
company has been committed to understanding the needs of its customers for the
past century, providing industry-leading elevators, escalators and automatic
building doors as well as innovative solutions for modernization and
maintenance. The company's objective is to offer the best People Flow®
experience by developing and delivering solutions that enable people to move
smoothly, safely, comfortably and without waiting in buildings in an
increasingly urbanizing environment. In 2011, KONE had annual net sales of EUR
5.2 billion and on average 35,000 employees. KONE class B shares are listed on
the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd in Finland.

www.kone.com


Sender:

KONE Corporation

Jukka Ala-Mello
Secretary to the Board

Anne Korkiakoski
Executive Vice President
Marketing and Communications

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