Componenta - Major shareholder announcements

Notification pursuant to Chapter 9, section 5 of the Securities Markets Act: Sampo Oyj’s holding in Componenta has exceeded 10%

Componenta Corporation    Stock Exchange Release 18.8.2014 at 8.05

Componenta Corporation (Business ID 1635451-6) received on 15 August 2014 the
following notification pursuant to Chapter 9, section 5 of the Securities
Markets Act, according to which Sampo Oyj's holding of shares and voting rights
of Componenta Corporation has exceeded 10%. 

1. Target company: Componenta Corporation

2.  Arrangement if realized shall lead into a situation where the shareholding
and voting rights exceed the flagging notice limit of 10% according to Chapter
9, section 5 of the Securities Markets Act. 

3. Name of shareholder Sampo Oyj

4. Shareholding and voting rights of the target company:

Shareholding and voting rights before flagging notification:

Mandatum Henkivakuutusyhtiö ”Mandatum” -unit-link
Number of shares: 1,200,000
Share of total number of shares and voting rights: < 5%

Shareholding and voting rights after flagging notification:

Mandatum
Number of shares: 7,978,128
Share of total number of shares and voting rights: 8.20%

Sampo Oyj
Number of shares: 4,615,384
Share of total number of shares and voting rights: 4.74%

Mandatum and Sampo Oyj together:
Number of shares: 12,593,512
Share of total number of shares and voting rights: 12.95%

5. Essential content of the arrangement:

Componenta Corporation has on 15 August 2014 announced its financing
arrangements. As part of the arrangements, Componenta will execute share issues
in total of 68 million shares in two phases. 

In the first share issue (“Private Placement”) the company has decided to offer
in total a maximum of 15 million shares to a limited group of selected
investors (”Issued Shares”). The company has received the subscription
commitments in total for 15,000,000 shares. 

In addition, the Board of Directors proposes that the Extraordinary General
Meeting to be held on 5 September 2014 will resolve to offer in the second
phase of the share issues in total a maximum of 53,000,000 new shares (“New
Shares”) to individuals and corporations in Finland (“the Share Issue”). The
shareholders, who represent at least 70% of the company's shares and voting
rights, are committed to vote for the Share Issue in the Extraordinary General
Meeting. 

The company has received subscription commitments for a subscription of 5
million New Shares to be paid by cash. The company has received subscription
commitments from certain bondholders to subscribe New Shares in the Share Issue
with more than EUR 63 million by paying the subcriptions with the loan
receivables of Componenta and the accrued but unpaid interest. 

Sampo Oyj has committed to subscribe 4,615,384 New Shares in Componenta
Corporation's Share Issue. 

Mandatum Henkivakuutusyhtiö has committed to subscribe 600,000 Issued Shares in
the Private Placement (subscription made on 15 August 2014) and 6,178,128 New
Shares in the Share Issue. 

The total amount of shares and votes published by Componenta Corporation on 15
August 2014 is 29,269,224. Basis for the flagging calculation is that the
Private Placement and the Share Issue will realize according to maximum amount.
After the Private Placement and the Share Issue the total amount of shares and
votes will be 97,269,224.” 

Helsinki, 18 August 2014

COMPONENTA CORPORATION


Heikki Lehtonen
President and CEO



For further information, please contact:

Heikki Lehtonen
President and CEO
tel. +358 10 403 2200
Mika Hassinen
CFO
tel. +358 10 403 2723



Componenta is a metal sector company with international operations and
production plants located in Finland, Turkey, the Netherlands and Sweden. The
net sales of Componenta were EUR 511 million in 2013 and its share is listed on
the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. The Group employs approx. 4,400 people. Componenta
specializes in supplying cast and machined components and total solutions made
of them to its global customers, who are manufacturers of vehicles, machines
and equipment.

Attachments:

release_componenta_18082014_flagging_sampo.pdf