Vacon - Changes in company's own shares

Vacon Plc's conveyance of own shares

Vacon Plc, Stock Exchange Release, December 23, 2008 at 3.00 p.m.

Vacon Plc has granted 1,500 of it's own shares to the Vacon group's
new director as part of his total compensation system.

Share: VAC1V
Share amount: 1,500
Average share price: 17,24 EUR
Total value 25,860 EUR
The amount of own shares held by Vacon Plc after the transfer:
101,812 shares.

VACON PLC

For more information, please contact:
Mika Leppänen, Vice President, Finance and Control, tel. +358 (0)40
8371 235

Distribution
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
Main media
Financial Supervision Authority
www.vacon.com

Vacon in brief:
Vacon was established in 1993 from a passion to develop and produce
AC drives globally. It is a matter of honour for Vacon to offer
customers efficient, reliable and easy to use means for improving
process control and saving energy and costs. Vacon's solutions
represent clean technology. They can be used to control the speed of
electric motors used by industry and municipal engineering, and in
power generation using renewable energy. Vacon provides AC drives in
the power range 0.25 kW - 5 MW. Revenues in 2007 totalled EUR 232.2
million.