Rocla Oyj - Notice to convene extr.general meeting

INVITATION TO THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF ROCLA OYJ

ROCLA OYJ   STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE      19 December 2008 at 9.45 am 
INVITATION TO THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF ROCLA OYJ    
Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift Europe B.V. has announced that it will complete 
its public tender offer for all the shares and option rights in Rocla Oyj. The  
sale and purchase of the Rocla shares and option rights that have been validly  
tendered into the tender offer will be settled on or about 23 December 2008,    
upon which time title to such shares and option rights will pass to Mitsubishi  
Caterpillar Forklift Europe B.V. against the payment of the offer consideration.

Following its decision to complete the tender offer, Mitsubishi Caterpillar     
Forklift Europe B.V., which upon the settlement of the above completion trades  
will become the owner of 98.6 per cent of all the shares and voting rights in   
Rocla Oyj, has requested that the Board of Directors of Rocla Oyj convenes an   
Extraordinary General Meeting to elect a new Board of Directors for the Company.
The shareholders of Rocla Oyj are thus invited to the Extraordinary General     
Meeting that will be held on Tuesday, 13 January 2009 at 5:00 p.m. at Rocla Head
Office, address Jampankatu 2, 04440 Järvenpää.   
MEETING AGENDA                
At the General Meeting, the following proposals by the shareholder Mitsubishi   
Caterpillar Forklift Europe B.V. will be considered:    
1. Release of the current members of the Board of Directors from their office: 
Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift Europe B.V. proposes that the Extraordinary     
General Meeting decides to release all current members of the Board of Directors
with immediate effect from their office.   
2. Number and election of Board members:  
Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift Europe B.V. proposes that the number of members 
of the Board of Directors shall be five (5). Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift   
Europe B.V. further proposes that the Extraordinary General Meeting elects Mr.  
Yuichi Mano, Mr. Hiroyuki Shimma and Mr. Herman Hofland as new members of the   
Board of Directors and re-elects Mr. Naoyuki Matsumura and Mr. Vesa Puttonen as 
members of the Board of Directors.   
RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MEETING  
Shareholders, who are registered in the shareholder register kept by Finnish    
Central Securities Depositary Ltd. on the record date 2 January 2009, are       
entitled to participate in the Extraordinary General Meeting. Shareholders with 
nominee-registered shares, who wish to participate in the Extraordinary General 
Meeting, shall contact their custodian bank to be temporarily recorded in the   
shareholder register on 2 January 2009 for the purpose of participating in the  
meeting.                 
REGISTRATION           
Shareholders, who wish to participate in the Extraordinary General Meeting      
should notify the Company of their intention to do so by 7 January 2009 before  
4:00 p.m. (Finnish time) either by telephone to the telephone number +358 40 525
5754 /Ms. Piia Jokela or by e-mail to address piia.jokela@rocla.com. Proxies    
entitling to exercise a shareholder's rights at the meeting should be forwarded 
to the Company by the above registration date to the address Rocla Oyj,         
Yhtiökokous, PL 88, 04401 Järvenpää or as an e-mail attachment to               
piia.jokela@rocla.com.   
In Järvenpää on 19 December 2008  
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS      
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE PROPOSED NEW BOARD MEMBERS  
Yuichi Mano                                                                     
Group Manager - Corporate Planning Group, Material Handling Equipment Business  
Department, General Machinery & Special Vehicle Headquarters, Mitsubishi Heavy  
Industries, Ltd.                                                                
Born in 1963, Japanese national. MBA Carnegie Mellon University in the USA, BA  
Social Studies Hitotsubashi University in Japan. 
Hiroyuki Shimma                                                                 
President of Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift Europe B.V.                        
Born in 1957, Japanese national. Bachelor of Economics at Waseda University in  
Japan.    
Herman Hofland                                                                  
Vice President, Finance Division of Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift Europe B.V. 
Born in 1956, Dutch national. Accountant (CPA).