KONE Oyj - Company Announcement

KONE publishes January-June 2012 Interim Report on Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 12:30 p.m.

KONE Corporation, stock exchange release, July 5, 2012 at 9.30 a.m. EET

Interim Report

KONE Corporation will publish its Interim Report for the period January 1-June
30, 2012 on Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 12:30 p.m. EET. The report will be
available on www.kone.com after publishing.

Press and analyst meetings

A meeting for the press, conducted in Finnish, will be held on Thursday, July
19, 2012 at 2:15 p.m. EET.

A meeting for analysts, conducted in English, will begin at 3:45 p.m. EET. The
meeting will be available as a live webcast on www.kone.com. The meeting
participants can also join a telephone conference that will be arranged in
conjunction with the meeting. The telephone conference details can be found
below.

Both meetings will take place in the KONE Building, located at Keilasatama 3,
Espoo, Finland.

Telephone conference numbers:

Finnish callers: +358 923 101 527
US callers: +1 866 458 4087
Non-US callers: +44 203 043 2436
Participant code: KONE

An on-demand version of the webcast will be available on www.kone.com later the
same day.

For further information, please contact:
Karla Lindahl, Director, Investor Relations, tel. +358 204 75 4441

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

Henrik Ehrnrooth
CFO

Anne Korkiakoski
Executive Vice President
Marketing & Communications

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