Wärtsilä - Changes in company's own shares

Sampo decreased holding in Wärtsilä Corporation

Wärtsilä Corporation Changes in company's own shares 4.7.2007 at 3.30
p.m. local time

Sampo plc has today informed Wärtsilä Corporation that it has sold
Wärtsilä shares on the 3 July 2007 and now owns less than a twentieth
(1/20) of the company's number of votes in the shares. Following the
transaction Sampo now owns 584,668 A shares or 0.61% of Wärtsilä's
share capital and 1.90% of the total votes.

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