Kesko Oyj - Major shareholder announcements

Flagging notification by virtue of Chapter 9, Section 5 of the Securities Market Act

KESKO CORPORATION STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 23.12.2015 AT 15.30 1(1)

Flagging notification by virtue of Chapter 9, Section 5 of the Securities Market
Act

According to a notification received by Kesko Corporation, the total voting
rights in respect of shares in Kesko held by K-Retailers' Association exceeded
10 per cent on 23 December 2015.

According to the K-Retailers' Association's notification, the breakdown of the
holding is as follows:

Name of issuer company: Kesko Corporation (business ID 0109862-8)

K-Retailers' Association

                             Percentage of shares Percentage of
                                     (%)              votes
Share type            Pcs                              (%)

A share            3,877,707         3.88             10.05
ISIN: FI0009007900

B share                0              0                 0
ISIN: FI0009000202

TOTAL                                3.88             10.05



Kesko holds a total of 100,019,752 shares, 31,737,007 of which are A shares and
68,282,745 are B shares. Each A share carries ten (10) votes and each B share
carries one (1) vote, and the total number of votes carried by the Kesko shares
is 385,652,815.

Notifier's full name and business ID:
K-Retailers' Association, business ID 0202334-5.

Further information Lauri Peltola, Senior Vice President, corporate
responsibility, communications and stakeholder relations, tel. +358 105 322 400.


Kesko Corporation



Merja Haverinen
Vice President, Group Communications


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