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Nordea flags changes in its holding in Alma Media


ALMA MEDIA CORPORATION   STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT  2 Jan 2008, at
09.30


NORDEA FLAGS CHANGES IN ITS HOLDING IN ALMA MEDIA

The company has received information to the effect that the Swedish
corporation Nordea Bank AB (publ) (business ID code 516406-0120)
ownership in Alma Media has not changed according to the announcement
in October 2007. According to the announcement, as the forward
contracts in possession of Nordea Bank AB (publ) and its Finnish
subsidiary Nordea Pankki Suomi Oyj (business ID code 1680235-8)
mature, the holding of Nordea Group and Nordea Pankki Suomi Oyj in
Alma Media Corporation will fall below 1/10.

Nordea Bank AB announces that the forward contracts, due to mature
December 2007, have been extended to longer maturities and that the
holding of Nordea Group and Nordea Pankki Suomi Oyj in Alma Media
Corporation has thus risen above 3/20 as a result of trading on 27
December 2007.

Nordea Pankki Suomi Oyj has on 27 December 2007 purchased 975.000
Alma Media's shares and presently holds 12.102.262 shares,
representing 16.22 % of Alma Media's share capital and voting rights.

Nordea Bank AB (publ) holds 6.000 Alma Media shares, representing
0.008 % of share capital and voting rights.
Furthermore, Nordea Life Assurance Finland Ltd. (business ID
0927072-8), a subsidiary of the Nordea Group, owns 453.598 Alma Media
shares, representing approximately 0.61% of the share capital and
votes.

Nordea Group owns altogether 12.561.860 Alma Media shares, or 16.84%
of the share capital and votes.
Nordea Pankki Suomi Oyj, according to previously announced, has made
forward contracts on Alma Media Corporation shares. The deals have
been made on the Stock Exchange with brokerage firms. Of those,
20.760 contracts (2.076.000 shares) mature in January 2008; 75.732
contracts (7.573.200 shares) mature in February 2008; 24.530
contracts (2.453.000 shares) mature in March 2008. As the forward
contracts mature in January 2008, the holding of Nordea Pankki Suomi
Oyj and Nordea Group will fall below 3/20, and when the forward
contracts mature in February 2008, below 1/20.

Nordea Pankki Suomi Oyj has acquired the Alma Media Corporation
shares it now owns as part of its liquidity guarantee business.


ALMA MEDIA CORPORATION

Rauno Heinonen
VP, Corporate Communications and IR

DISTRIBUTION: Helsinki Exchanges, principal media

Alma Media is a profitably growing and internationally expanding
company that invests in the future of newspapers and the online
media. Its best known products are Aamulehti, Iltalehti, Kauppalehti
and Etuovi.com.

Net sales in 2006 totalled EUR 302 million and the operating margin
was 16 %. The company's share is listed in the Mid Cap segment of the
OMX Nordic Exchange's Nordic List, trading code ALN1V. More
information at http://www.almamedia.fi/home