Vacon - Major shareholder announcements

Holding of Montanaro Asset Management in Vacon exceeds the threshold of 5 percent

Vacon Plc, Stock Exchange Release, 22 April 2013 at 4.15 pm (EET)

Vacon Plc (ID 1519966-5) has on 22 April, 2013, received a disclosure under
Chapter 9, Section 5 of the Securities Markets Act, according to which the
holding of Montanaro Asset Management Ltd in Vacon Plc has exceeded the
threshold of 1/20 (5%). According to the disclosure Montanaro Asset Management
Ltd holds 791,681 Vacon Plc's shares, which is 5.18% of Vacon Plc's shares and
votes.

Exceeding the above mentioned threshold is the result of the purchasing of
shares on 18 April 2013.

Vacon Plc has a total of 15,295,000 shares. The company has only one class of
shares and each share entitles to one vote.

VACON PLC

Further information:

  * President and CEO, Vesa Laisi, Phone +358 (0)40 837 1510, e-mail
    vesa.laisi(at)vacon.com

Vacon in brief

Vacon is driven by a passion to develop, manufacture and sell the best AC drives
and inverters in the world - and provide customers with efficient product
lifecycle services. Our AC drives offer optimum process control and energy
efficiency for electric motors. Vacon inverters play a key role when energy is
produced from renewable sources. Vacon has production and R&D facilities in
Europe, Asia and North America, and sales offices in 29 countries. Further,
Vacon has sales representatives and service partners in nearly 90 countries. In
2012, Vacon's revenues amounted to EUR 388.4 million, and the company employed
globally approximately 1,500 people. The shares of Vacon Plc (VAC1V) are quoted
on the main list of the Helsinki stock exchange (NASDAQ OMX Helsinki).

Driven by Drives, www.vacon.com

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