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2007-12-28 15:21:39 CET 2007-12-28 15:21:54 CET REGULATED INFORMATION Ruukki Group Oyj - Major shareholder announcementsANNOUNCEMENT PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 2, SECTION 10 OF THE SECURITIES MARKET ACTRuukki Group Plc has today received an announcement pursuant to Securities Market Act regarding a change in shareholding. Nordea Bank AB (publ) (Swedish registration number 516406-0120) refers to announcement that was made on November 22 2007. Nordea Bank AB (publ) announced then that as forward contracts expire in December, the ownership of its Finnish subsidiary Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc (business ID 1680235-8) will fall below 1/5 of the share capital and voting rights of Ruukki Group Plc. Nordea Bank AB (publ) announces hereby that forward contracts that were due in December have been rolled forward to longer maturities. Consequently the ownership has not fallen below 1/5 but is over 1/4. Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc holds 75,883,960 Ruukki Group Plc's shares, that is 26.16 % of the share capital and voting rights of Ruukki Group Plc. Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc also has 8,365 share option rights. One option right gives a right to purchase 100 Ruukki Group Plc's shares at a certain strike price by February 15 2008. These rights have not been included in this announcement. Moreover, Nordea Bank AB (publ) holds 9,624 Ruukki Group Plc shares i.e. 0.003% of the share capital and voting rights of Ruukki Group Plc. Total holdings of Nordea group in Ruukki Group Plc are 26.17% (75,893,584 shares). Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc has entered into Ruukki Group share forward contracts of which 518,507 (51,850,700 shares) expire in January 2008, 214,531 (21,452,100 shares) in March 2008 and 30,000 (3,000,000 shares) in June 2008. As the January 2008 forward contracts expire, the ownership of Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc will fall below 1/10, and as the March forward contracts expire, below 1/20 of the share capital and voting rights of Ruukki Group Plc. Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc has purchased Ruukki Group shares as a part of its liquidity providing services. Ruukki Group Plc's registered number of shares is 290,034,022 shares and share capital is EUR 23,638,649.60. RUUKKI GROUP OYJ Matti Vikkula Chief Executive Officer Ruukki Group focuses on wood-based industrial business operations. Currently the group operations are located mainly in Finland, but in future the targeted emphasis is principally in Russia. Ruukki Group Plc is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. The company's share is quoted on the OMX Nordic Exchange under the Mid Cap segment in the Industrials sector. For further information, please contact: Matti Vikkula Chief Executive Officer Ruukki Group Plc Telephone +358 45 6700 606 www.ruukkigroup.fi |
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