Lännen Tehtaat - Changes board/management/auditors

NEW MANAGING DIRECTORS FOR APETIT PAKASTE OY AND CATERNET FINLAND OY

LÄNNEN TEHTAAT PLC, Stock Exchange Release, 21 May 2012 at 11.00 (EET)

Antti Kerttula (b. 1956) has been appointed Managing Director of Caternet
Finland Oy, as of 21 May 2012. He has served as Director of Lännen Tehtaat
plc's Frozen Foods business since 1994, and has been Managing Director of
Apetit Pakaste Oy since 2007. Kerttula will continue as a member of Lännen
Tehtaat's Corporate Management. 

Vesa Moisio (b. 1965) has been appointed Managing Director of Apetit Pakaste Oy
and a member of Lännen Tehtaat's Corporate Management, as of 21 May 2012. He
has over 20 years' experience in various duties at Vaasan Oy. 

“Antti Kerttula brings to Caternet his considerable expertise in the food
business. His leadership will enable us to further strengthen and develop
Caternet's core business. Vesa Moisio has diverse and solid expertise in the
food business gained at Vaasan Oy, and this is needed to boost the level of
profitable growth at Apetit Pakaste,” says Matti Karppinen, CEO of Lännen
Tehtaat. 

Apetit Pakaste is the leading Finnish producer of frozen vegetables and frozen
ready meals. Under its Apetit brand, it develops, produces, markets and sells
frozen foods mainly produced using Finnish raw materials. The home-grown
content accounts for more than 80% in Apetit's frozen vegetables and frozen
potato products. The Kotimaiset range is produced using only Finnish raw
materials. The net sales of Apetit Pakaste in 2011 totalled approximately EUR
45 million and it had a personnel of approximately 200. 

Lännen Tehtaat plc acquired Caternet Finland Oy in March 2012. Caternet Finland
Oy is Finland's leading company specialising in preparing and supplying
additive-free fresh food products. The company produces pre-prepared and
ready-to-use vegetable and fruit products in a modern production plant with the
highest standards of food hygiene at Kivikko in Helsinki. Caternet's customers
are mainly companies in the food service sector. Caternet's net sales in 2011
totalled approximately EUR 29 million and it had a personnel of approximately
120. 



LÄNNEN TEHTAAT PLC



Matti Karppinen

CEO



Further information:
Matti Karppinen, CEO, tel. +358 (0)10 402 00



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