Lännen Tehtaat - Changes board/management/auditors

ERKKI LEPISTÖ APPOINTED MANAGING DIRECTOR OF APETIT KALA OY

LÄNNEN TEHTAAT PLC 	STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE     2 March 2010, 9:30 a.m.          

ERKKI LEPISTÖ APPOINTED MANAGING DIRECTOR OF APETIT KALA OY                     

Erkki Lepistö has today been appointed Director of the Lännen Tehtaat Group's   
Finnish Seafood business and Managing Director of Apetit Kala Oy. He will       
continue implementing the Finnish Seafood business's strategy. Lepistö has      
previously served in a number of management positions within the Lännen Tehtaat 
Group, most recently as Managing Director of Mildola Oy.                        

Jarno Järvinen takes up responsibility at Lännen Tehtaat for acquisitions and   
other corporate transactions in the seafood sector.                             
Apetit Kala Oy is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lännen Tehtaat plc. It develops, 
produces and sells fish products under the Apetit brand and retailers' private  
labels, and sells fish products and other fresh food at its shop-in-shop service
counters operating under the Kalatori brand.                                    


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Matti Karppinen                                                                 
CEO                                                                 

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