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Kesko Group Management Board member Lauri Peltola leaves Kesko

KESKO CORPORATION STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 29.09.2017 AT 15.00 1(1)

Kesko Group Management Board member Lauri Peltola leaves Kesko

Lauri Peltola, EVP, Marketing and Corporate Affairs and member of Group
Management Board, leaves Kesko by the end of the year.

"Lauri Peltola has done excellent work in renewing K Group's brand portfolio,
marketing, communications and public affairs. I wish him the best of luck for
his future endeavours," says President and CEO Mikko Helander.

"Three years of renewal work has come to a stage where it is natural to consider
new challenges. K Group has offered a great outlook to a rapidly changing
trading sector and I'm sincerely thankful for having had the opportunity to
participate in K Group's new development phase," says Lauri Peltola.

Kesko will immediately start a process to create a succession plan for Lauri
Peltola.



Further information is available from Lauri Peltola, tel. +358 505 705 606



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