Stockmann - Company Announcement

LINDEX SHAREHOLDERS' SUPPORT AND IRREVOCABLE UNDERTAKINGS TO ACCEPT THE OFFER FOR LINDEX

Lindex' shareholders representing approximately 24 percent of all the
issued and outstanding shares in Lindex have, in addition to already
having together with certain other Lindex' shareholders expressed their
support for Stockmann's public tender offer for the shares in Lindex (the
"Offer") as disclosed in the offer announcement of 1 October 2007, entered
into irrevocable undertakings to tender their Lindex shares to Stockmann
under the Offer. The undertakings may be withdrawn should a third party
launch a public tender offer for all the shares in Lindex for a
consideration higher than the consideration offered in the Offer.

The other shareholders in Lindex that have expressed their support for the
Offer represent approximately 20 percent of all the issued and outstanding
shares in Lindex. The Offer is thus at the moment supported by
approximately 44 percent of the Lindex' shareholders in total.


STOCKMANN plc

Hannu Penttilä
CEO


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OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki
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