Alma Media - Company Announcement

Alma Media's new printing and distribution company named Alma Manu Oy

Alma Media Corporation    Press release       July 1, 2010 at 9:20 am

ALMA MEDIA'S NEW PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANY NAMED ALMA MANU OY

Alma Media has consolidated its printing and distribution businesses into a new
group-level service unit. The new company, named Alma Manu Oy, brings together
Alma Media's three newspaper printing houses in Tampere, Pori and Rovaniemi as
well as the newspaper distribution company Aamujakelu Oy operating in Pirkanmaa,
Sea Lapland and Satakunta. Alma Manu Oy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alma
Media Corporation, and it has been entered into the Trade Register today.

- Alma Manu strives for cost-efficient printing and distribution through
producing, buying and selling services. In our operations, we take into account
the wellbeing of both the environment and our staff. We want to be forerunners
in this business. We are the first company in Finland to use an electronic
delivery book. We were recognised for our high operational quality at the
international WAN-IFRA printing quality competition early in the year. And we
will be even stronger in future when our new state-of-the-art printing facility
in Tampere goes operational in 2013, says Helvi Liukkaala, Managing Director,
Alma Manu Oy.

- The name of the new company, Alma Manu, has a reference not only to our role
as an Alma Media company but also to manufacturing and manual work. Manu is also
a company name with a human touch because it is a man's nickname. It is like a
person working for the benefit of our customers, Ms Liukkaala continues.
The company name was chosen from among entries submitted in a name competition
organised for Alma Media staff. The chosen name was suggested by Harri
Kainulainen, delivery foreman.



More information:

Helvi Liukkaala, Managing Director, Alma Manu Oy, tel. +358 10 665 3009



Alma Media in brief

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

Alma Media's net sales in 2009 totalled MEUR 307.8 with an operating margin of
13.5 per cent. The company's share (ALN1V) is listed in the NASDAX OMX Helsinki
Exchange. Read more at www.almamedia.fi.



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