Metsäliitto Osuuskunta - Changes board/management/auditors

Appointments in Metsäliitto Group Executive Management

Metsäliitto Group Stock Exchange release 17.9.2008

Martin Lillandt (62), Senior Executive Vice President, Metsäliitto
Cooperative, will retire on 30 November 2008.

Ole Salvén, Group Executive Vice President, Wood Products Industry,
will start his new position as Deputy to the CEO of Metsäliitto
Cooperative  from 1 December 2008.

Juha Mäntylä, Forest Director, Metsäliitto Group, has been appointed
Group Executive Vice President, Metsäliitto Wood Supply, from 1
December 2008. He will also become a member of the Group's Board of
Directors.

Further information: Anne-Mari Achrén, Group CCO, tel. +358 10 465
4541