Neomarkka - Company Announcement

NEOMARKKA TO START ACQUIRING ITS OWN SHARES

Neomarkka Plc	STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 27.2.2009	at 12.30 pm 


NEOMARKKA TO START ACQUIRING ITS OWN SHARES 

Neomarkka Plc's Board of Directors has decided to exercise the authorization it
was given by the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 11 June 2008 to
acquire the Company's own series B shares. Under the authorization given by the
AGM a maximum of 588,067 Company's own series B shares may be acquired. 

The Company's own shares will be acquires using the Company's unrestricted
equity at the market price at the time of trading on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
exchange at the share price on the day of trading, in accordance with the rules
and regulations concerning the purchase of a company's own shares in public
trading. 

Neomarkka Plc's Board of Directors decided to deviate from the procedures
referred to in Clauses 3.2.1. and 3.2.2. of the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd's
guidelines 3.2.5. related to own shares of the listed companies, because of the
minor trading volume of the company's shares. The training volume on certain
trading day may lead to that the acquisition of own shares of the company can
be more than 50 percent of the average trading volume of that trading day. The
acquisition of own shares shall be effected in a way that no exceptional market
movements result from such trading and on that trading day the amount of the
shares cannot exceed 5 percent of the maximum amount of the share acquisition
in accordance with the decisions of the company. 

The shares are acquired to be used in order to carry out acquisitions and other
arrangements within the scope of the Company's business operations, to improve
the Company's capital structure, as part of implementing the Company's
incentive scheme, or to be further transferred for other purposes or to be
cancelled. 

Neomarkka Plc 


Markku E. Rentto
Managing Director

FURTHER INFORMATION:
Markku E. Rentto, Managing Director, tel. +358 207 209 191


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