Stora Enso Oyj - Company Announcement

Stora Enso appoints Juan Carlos Bueno as Executive Vice President, Head of Latin America, and member of Group Executive Team

Helsinki, Finland, 2011-03-29 13:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- STORA ENSO OYJ
STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 29 March 2011 at 14.00 EET 

Stora Enso has appointed Juan Carlos Bueno, 42, to head the Group's operations
in Latin America and as a member of the Group Executive Team as of 1 April
2011. 

Juan Carlos Bueno is a native Colombian and has worked for the global science
company DuPont in various positions since 1992. For the past several years he
has been the Vice President leading the DuPont Agricultural Products business
in Brazil. He has some twenty years of experience from finance, sales,
marketing and general business management. 

“We welcome Juan Carlos Bueno to the Stora Enso team with high expectations. He
will bring us a combination of solid business experience and totally new
insights into Latin America. Throughout his career Juan Carlos has demonstrated
strong strategic and operational capabilities in the changing economic and
market conditions not only in Latin America, but also in Europe and North
America,” says Stora Enso CEO Jouko Karvinen. 

Nils Grafström, 64, after a long successful career first in Stora, then Stora
Enso, and for the past eight years as head of Stora Enso Latin America, will
retire as previously planned in June 2011. 

Photo of Juan Carlos Bueno is available at
http://bmt.storaenso.com/storaensolink.jsp?imageid=juancarlosbueno
Please copy the link into your web browser.

For further information, please contact:
Jouko Karvinen, CEO, tel. +358 2046 21410
Juan Carlos Bueno, EVP, Latin America, tel. +55 1182 326 452
Lauri Peltola, Head of Communications and Global Responsibility, tel. +358 2046
21380 


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Stora Enso is a global paper, packaging and wood products company producing
newsprint and book paper, magazine paper, fine paper, consumer board,
industrial packaging and wood products. The Group is the world leader in forest
industry sustainability. We offer our customers solutions based on renewable
raw materials. Our products provide a climate-friendly alternative to many
non-renewable materials, and have a smaller carbon footprint. Stora Enso is
listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Index. Stora
Enso employs some 26 000 people worldwide, and our sales in 2010 amounted to
EUR 10.3 billion. Stora Enso shares are listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (STEAV,
STERV) and Stockholm (STE A, STE R). In addition, the shares are traded in the
USA as ADRs (SEOAY) in the International OTCQX over-the-counter market. 


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