Ruukki Group Oyj - Major shareholder announcements

ANNOUNCEMENT PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 2, SECTION 10 OF THE SECURITIES MARKET ACT

Ruukki Group Plc, Stock Exchange Release, 11 December 2009 at 12:03 p.m.        

ANNOUNCEMENT PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 2, SECTION 10 OF THE SECURITIES MARKET ACT     

Ruukki Group Plc has received an announcement pursuant to Securities Market Act 
chapter 2, section 9 regarding a change in shareholding:                        

Kermas Ltd (registration number 504889, Tortola, British Virgin Islands)        
announces that its current ownership has fallen below 30% of the number of      
Ruukki Group Plc shares in the Trade Register and voting rights attached to     
these shares based on share transactions carried out on 10 December 2009.       

Kermas Limited now owns Ruukki Group Plc shares as follows:                     

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|                                       |      number of |     % of shares and |
|                                       |         shares |       voting rights |
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| Current ownership (shares)            |     77,366,500 |              29.64% |
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| Potential future ownership (option    |    +73,170,731 |              28.03% |
| arrangement)                          |                |                     |
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| Total                                 |    150,537,231 |              57.67% |
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Ruukki Group Plc's registered number of shares is 261,034,022 and share capital 
is EUR 23,642,049.60. The number of treasury shares held by Ruukki Group Plc on 
10 December 2009 is 21,787,917 shares.                                          

RUUKKI GROUP PLC                                                                

Alwyn Smit                                                                      
Chief Executive Officer                                               

Ruukki Group is an industrial group focusing on minerals and wood processing    
businesses. Ruukki Group Plc's shares are listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki and     
traded in the mid cap segment, in the industrials sector.                       

For additional information, please contact:                                     

Alwyn Smit                                                                      
Chief Executive Officer                                                         
Ruukki Group Plc                                                                
Telephone +41 7960 19094                                                        
www.ruukkigroup.fi                                                              

This stock exchange release is based on a translation into English of a document
written in Finnish. In case of any discrepancies, inconsistencies or            
inaccuracies, the Finnish version of the release shall prevail.