Apetit Oyj - Changes board/management/auditors

Juha Vanhainen appointed CEO of Apetit Plc

Apetit Plc, Stock Exchange Release, 19 September 2014 at 8:30 a.m.

The Board of Directors of Apetit Plc has appointed Juha Vanhainen (born 1961),
M. Sc. (Eng.) as the CEO of Apetit Plc. He will take up the post as CEO of
Apetit Plc on 2 April, 2015. Currently he is Executive Vice President and
member of the Group Leadership Team at Stora Enso Oyj. 

Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors Veijo Meriläinen, who was appointed
CEO of Apetit Plc on 29 April 2014, will continue as CEO, while also taking
care of his duties in the Board of Directors, until Juha Vanhainen takes up the
post. 

Aappo Kontu, Chairman of the Board of Directors: “The Apetit Group's business
areas occupy a strong market position, which has improved steadily over recent
years. However, we have faced challenges in achieving the targeted growth and
in the profitability of certain Food Business product groups. Therefore we are
very pleased that Juha Vanhainen will be joining the company as our new CEO. He
has very solid and versatile management experience and a proven track record in
a notable international process industry company operating in a challenging
environment. He has also achieved excellent results in the field of
representing the interests of Finnish business communities. I believe he will
facilitate the new development trend that we are pursuing and help achieve the
targeted regeneration in our company.” 

Juha Vanhainen, CEO of Apetit Plc as of 2 April 2015: "Apetit is a Finnish food
industry company operating in the Food business and Grains and Oilseeds
business that is in a very interesting phase of regeneration. The company's
operations cover the entire food production chain from primary production to
the consumer table. This provides a good starting point to transform Apetit
into a Finnish food industry success story. I am really looking forward to
working with the skilled and experienced employees at Apetit and taking Apetit
forward together.” 


Juha Vanhainen's CV and photo are attached to this release.


Apetit Plc


Board of Directors



FOR MORE INFORMATION

Aappo Kontu, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Apetit Plc, tel. +358 44 425
2210 
Juha Vanhainen, CEO of Apetit Plc as of 2 April, 2015. tel. +358 40 541 8178
Veijo Meriläinen, CEO of Apetit Plc, tel. +358 50 521 4061



DISTRIBUTION

NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd. Main Media, www.apetitgroup.fi


Delightfully satisfying flavours and service experiences.  Apetit Plc is a
Finnish food company whose mission is to offer delightfully satisfying flavours
and service experience. We are well known for our frozen vegetables and frozen
ready meals, fresh fish and fish products, ready-to-use fresh fruit and
vegetable products and grains and vegetable oils. The Group's shares are quoted
in NASDAQ OMX Helsinki  Ltd. In 2013 our net sales was EUR 387 million and our
average number of personnel was 782.

Attachments:

CV_Juha Vanhainen_ENG_FINAL.pdf

Juha_Vanhainen.jpg