Lassila & Tikanoja - Changes board/management/auditors

Change in Lassila & Tikanoja’s management

Helsinki, Finland, 2011-12-16 12:00 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lassila & Tikanoja
plc   Stock exchange release   16 December 2011 1.00 pm 

Tuomas Mäkipeska (M.Sc. Econ.) has been appointed Business Development Director
and Group Executive of Lassila & Tikanoja plc as of 16 February 2012, at the
latest. Tuomas Mäkipeska (born in 1978) has previously worked as a management
consultant in Deloitte Finland's Strategy & Operations consulting since 2005,
specialising in customer and market strategy. He was responsible for pricing
and profitability management consulting. 

Mäkipeska reports to the President and CEO Pekka Ojanpää.

LASSILA & TIKANOJA PLC

Pekka Ojanpää
President and CEO


For additional information, please contact Pekka Ojanpää, President and CEO,
tel. +358 10 636 2810. 


Lassila & Tikanoja specialises in environmental management and property and
plant support services and is a leading supplier of wood-based biofuels,
recovered fuels and recycled raw materials. With operations in Finland, Sweden,
Latvia and Russia, L&T employs 10,000 persons. Net sales in 2010 amounted to
EUR 598 million. L&T is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. 

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