Ponsse Oyj - Changes board/management/auditors

Executive Director, Corporate Development and Strategy Timo Karppinen invited to join the Ponsse Plc's Management Team

PONSSE PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 3 DECEMBER 2011 AT 2:00 P.M.



Executive Director, Corporate Development and Strategy Timo Karppinen invited
to join the Ponsse Plc's Management Team 

Ponsse Plc's Executive Director, Corporate Development and Strategy Timo
Karppinen (46), M.Soc.Sc., has been invited to join thePonsse Plc's Management
Team as of 3 January 2011. 

The area of responsibility of the Executive Director, Corporate Development and
Strategy is the development of the operations and reporting of the Ponsse
Group, the development of management processes and the development of the
company's structure. Timo Karppinen will act in the company's strategy working
group and participate in the activities of Ponsse's Board of Directors as an
expert member. Timo Karppinen will report President and CEO of Ponsse Plc Juho
Nummela. Karppinen will be located in Vieremä. 

Timo Karppinen was appointed Ponsse Plc's Executive Director, Corporate
Development and Strategy as of 1 January 2011. From the perspective of the
growth and further development of Ponsse Plc Timo Karppinen's solid experience
will play an important role in the management and development of the company's
extensive international operations. 



Vieremä, 3 January 2011

PONSSE PLC

Juho Nummela

President and CEO



FURTHER INFORMATION

Juho Nummela, President and CEO of Ponsse Plc, tel. +358 400 495 690



DISTRIBUTION

NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd

Principal media

www.ponsse.com



Ponsse Plc is a company specialising in the sales, manufacture, servicing and
technology of cut-to-length method forest machines and is driven by genuine
interest in its customers and their business. Ponsse develops and manufactures
sustainable and innovative harvesting solutions based on customers' needs. 

The company was established by forest machine entrepreneur Einari Vidgrén in
1970, and it has been a leader in timber harvesting solutions based on the
cut-to-length method ever since. Ponsse is headquartered in Vieremä, Finland.
The company's shares are quoted on the NASDAQ OMX