Ruukki Group Oyj - Major shareholder announcements

ANNOUNCEMENT PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 2, SECTION 10 OF THE SECURITIES MARKET ACT

Ruukki Group Plc, Stock Exchange Release, 12 November 2009 at 3:10 p.m.         

ANNOUNCEMENT PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 2, SECTION 10 OF THE SECURITIES MARKET ACT     

Ruukki Group Plc has today received an announcement pursuant to Securities      
Market Act chapter 2, section 9 regarding a change in shareholding.             

Nordea Bank AB (publ) (Swedish registration number 516406-0120) refers to the   
flagging notification made on 21 September 2009 where it informed that its      
Finnish subsidiary's Nordea Bank Finland Plc's (business ID 1680235-8) holdings 
in Ruukki Group Plc will fall below one twentieth (1/20) when the sold forward  
contact agreements expire in November 2009.                                     

Nordea Bank AB (publ) now announces that Nordea Bank Finland Plc has today on 12
November 2009 bought 150,000 Ruukki Group Plc forward contract agreements that  
expire in November 2009 and sold 15,000,000 Ruukki Group Plc shares.            

As a result, Nordea Bank Finland Plc's ownership of Ruukki Group Plc's share    
capital and voting rights has fallen below 1/20 and Nordea Bank Finland Plc     
doesn't have any holdings in Ruukki Group Plc.                                  

Nordea Bank Finland Plc had purchased Ruukki Group Plc shares as a part of its  
market making operations.                                                       

Ruukki Group Plc's registered number of shares is 261,034,022 and share capital 
is EUR 23,642,049.60. The number of treasury shares held by Ruukki Group Plc on 
11 November 2009 is 21,840,000 shares.                                          

RUUKKI GROUP PLC                                                                

Alwyn Smit                                                                      
Chief Executive Officer                                                         

Ruukki Group is an industrial group focusing on minerals and wood processing    
businesses. Ruukki Group Plc's shares are listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki and     
traded in the mid cap segment, in the industrials sector.                       

For additional information, please contact:                                     

Alwyn Smit                                                                      
Chief Executive Officer                                                         
Ruukki Group Plc                                                                
Telephone +41 7960 19094                                                        
www.ruukkigroup.fi                                                              

This stock exchange release is based on a translation into English of a document
written in Finnish. In case of any discrepancies, inconsistencies or            
inaccuracies, the Finnish version of the release shall prevail.