Aspo - Decisions of general meeting

Decisions of the Aspo Annual Shareholders' Meeting

ASPO Plc   STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE   APRIL 10, 2013, at 17:00

The Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Aspo Plc on April 10, 2013, approved the
parent company's and consolidated financial statements 2012 and discharged the
members of the Board of Directors and the CEO from the liability. The
shareholders approved the payment of a dividend totalling EUR 0.42 per share.
The record date will be April 15, 2013 and the payment date will be April
22, 2013.

Board of Directors and Auditor

The meeting confirmed the number of Board members at seven. Matti Arteva, Mammu
Kaario, Esa Karppinen, Roberto Lencioni, Gustav Nyberg, Kristina Pentti-von
Walzel and Risto Salo were re-elected to the Board of Directors. At the Board's
organizing meeting held after the Annual Shareholders' Meeting, Gustav Nyberg
was elected to carry on as Chairman of the Board and Matti Arteva as Vice-
Chairman. At the meeting the Board also decided to appoint Roberto Lencioni
Chairman of the Audit Committee and Mammu Kaario and Kristina Pentti-von Walzel
as committee members.

The authorized public accounting firm Ernst & Young Oy was elected as company
auditor.

Remuneration of the members of the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee

The meeting decided to maintain the remunerations of the members of the Board
and Audit Committee unchanged. The shareholders approved that EUR 15,500 be paid
per month to the chairman of the Board of Directors, EUR 3,600 per month to the
Vice-Chairman and EUR 2,400 per month to the other members of the Board of
Directors and EUR 700 per meeting to the members of the Audit Committee. Board
members employed by or in a service relationship with an Aspo Group company are
not paid a fee.

Authorization of the Board of Directors to decide on the acquisition of company-
held shares

The Annual Shareholders' Meeting authorized the Board of Directors to decide on
the acquisition of no more than 500,000 of the company-held shares using the
unrestricted shareholders' equity of the company. The authorization includes the
right to accept company-held shares as a pledge.

The shares shall be acquired through public trading, for which reason the shares
are acquired otherwise than in proportion to the holdings of the shareholders
and the consideration paid for the shares shall be the market price of the
Aspo's share at the time of repurchase. Shares may also be acquired outside
public trading for a price which at most corresponds to the market price in
public trading at the time of acquisition. The authorization includes the
Board's right to resolve on a directed repurchase or the acceptance of shares as
a pledge, if there is a compelling financial reason for the company to do so as
provided for in Chapter 15, section 6 of the Finnish Limited Liability Companies
Act. The shares shall be acquired to be used for the financing or execution of
corporate acquisitions or other transactions, for execution of the company's
share-ownership programs or for other purposes determined by the Board.

The Board may not exercise the authorization to acquire company-held shares or
to accept them as a pledge if after the acquisition the company or its
subsidiary would possess or have as a pledge in total more than ten (10) percent
of the company's stock. The authorization is valid until the Annual
Shareholders' Meeting in 2014 but not more than 18 months from the approval at
the Shareholders' Meeting.

The Board of Directors shall decide on any other matters related to the
acquisition of company-held shares.

The authorization will supersede the authorization for the acquisition of
company-held shares which was granted to the Board of Directors by the Annual
Shareholders' Meeting on April 3, 2012.

ASPO Plc

Aki Ojanen
CEO

For further information, please contact:
Aki Ojanen, CEO Aspo Plc, +358 9 521 4010, +358 400 106 592, e-mail aki.ojanen
(a)aspo.com.

Aspo is a conglomerate that owns and develops business operations in the Baltic
Sea region focusing on demanding B-to-B customers. Our strong company brands -
ESL Shipping, Leipurin, Telko and Kaukomarkkinat - aim to be the market leaders
in their sectors. They are responsible for their own operations, customer
relationships and the development of these. Together they generate Aspo's
goodwill. Aspo's Group structure and business operations are continually
developed without any predefined schedules.

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