KONE Oyj - Company Announcement

KONE publishes January 1-December 31, 2011 Financial Statement Bulletin on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 12:30 p.m. EET and Financial Statements 2011 at 12:45 p.m. EET

KONE Corporation, stock exchange release, January 12, 2012 at 9.30 a.m. EET

Financial Statement Bulletin and Financial Statements

KONE Corporation will publish its Financial Statement Bulletin for the January
1-December 31, 2011 accounting period on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 12:30
p.m. EET. The bulletin will be available on www.kone.com after publishing.

The Financial Statements for 2011 will be published on the same day at 12:45
p.m. EET. The Financial Statements will be available on www.kone.com after
publishing.

Press and analyst meetings

A meeting for the press, conducted in Finnish, will be held on Thursday, January
26, 2012 at 2:15 p.m. EET.

A meeting for analysts, conducted in English, will begin at 3:45 p.m. EET. The
meeting will be available as a live webcast on www.kone.com. The meeting
participants can also join a telephone conference that will be arranged in
conjunction with the meeting. The telephone conference details are set out
below.

Both meetings will take place in the KONE Building, located at Keilasatama 3,
Espoo, Finland.

Telephone conference numbers:

Finnish callers: +358 923 101 527
US callers: +1 866 458 40 87
Other callers: +44 203 043 2436
Participant code: KONE

An on-demand version of the webcast will be available on www.kone.com later
during the same day.

2011 publications and releases

KONE's Financial Statements 2011 will be available as a hard copy during week 7.

A separate Corporate Responsibility Report of KONE's operations in 2011 will be
published in the second quarter of 2012. The reports will be mailed to those
registered on the company's mailing list. The reports can also be ordered on
www.kone.com.

All 2011 stock exchange and press releases can be found on www.kone.com. In
addition, KONE Corporation's annual summary of stock exchange releases published
during the year 2011 has been published at the company's website. The summary is
available at www.kone.com under News & events - Press releases - Annual
Summaries.

About KONE
KONE is one of the global leaders in the elevator and escalator industry. The
company has been committed to understanding the needs of its customers for the
past century, providing industry-leading elevators, escalators and automatic
building doors as well as innovative solutions for modernization and
maintenance. The company's objective is to offer the best People Flow(TM)
experience by developing and delivering solutions that enable people to move
smoothly, safely, comfortably and without waiting in buildings in an
increasingly urbanizing environment. In 2010, KONE had annual net sales of EUR
5 billion and approximately 33,800 employees. KONE class B shares are listed on
the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd in Finland.
www.kone.com

For further information, please contact:
Karla Lindahl, Director, Investor Relations, tel.+358 204 75 4441

Sender:
KONE Corporation

Henrik Ehrnrooth
CFO

Anne Korkiakoski
Executive Vice President,
Marketing and Communications

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