2010-10-06 18:10:00 CEST

2010-10-06 18:10:01 CEST


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Ruukki Group Oyj - Company Announcement

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS, PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY OR CONNECTED PERSONS


17:10 London, 19:10 Helsinki, 6 October 2010 - Ruukki Group Plc, Stock Exchange 
Release                                                                         

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS, PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL       
RESPONSIBILITY OR CONNECTED PERSONS                                             

Ruukki Group Plc (“Ruukki” or the “Company”) (LSE: RKKI, OMX: RUG1V) announces  
that, following a notification received on 5 October 2010, Markku Kankaala,     
Non-executive Director, has sold 250,000 ordinary shares ("shares") in the      
Company to Atkey Ltd at a price of Euro 1.80 per share on 5 October 2010. The   
trade was done manually between the parties on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Exchange.

In addition, Markku Kankaala has sold 5,000 shares at an average price of Euro  
1.81 per share on 4 October 2010. The trades were made on the NASDAQ OMX        
Helsinki Exchange in accordance with a trading plan entered into on 24 May 2010.

Ruukki's Board of Directors approved the termination of the trading plan on 5   
October 2010 as a result of the sale of shares to Atkey Ltd. The announced      
trades in this release are therefore the last that will take place within this  
trading plan.                                                                   

Markku Kankaala now holds voting rights attached to 8,077,533 shares,           
representing 3.37% of the issued share capital of the Company excluding treasury
shares.                                                                         

The trading plan is a written trading programme which sets out the strategy for 
the acquisition and/or disposal of securities to enable insiders of the Company 
to trade shares without doubts related to the use of insider information.  The  
plan specifies the amount, the price and the date on which the securities are to
be dealt in by an independent third party on behalf of the Company insider. The 
purpose of the trading plan is to separate the timing of the decision on the    
share trade and the execution of the trade.                                     

RUUKKI GROUP PLC                                                                
Alwyn Smit                                                                      
CEO                                                                             

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 the 
London Stock Exchange.                                                          

For additional information please contact:                                      

Ruukki Group Plc                                                                
Alwyn Smit, CEO: +44 20 7368 6763                                               
www.ruukkigroup.fi                                                              

Investec Bank plc                                                               
Stephen Cooper: +44 20 7597 5104