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Mika Majoinen appointed Kesko's EVP, Group General Counsel and a member of the Group Management Board

KESKO CORPORATION STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 21.09.2017 AT 09.00 1(1)

Mika Majoinen appointed Kesko's EVP, Group General Counsel and a member of the
Group Management Board

Mika Majoinen, 53, Master of Laws, has been appointed Kesko Group General
Counsel, a position he will take up on January 1, 2018. He will also become a
member of Kesko's Group Management Board.

Mika Majoinen has had a long career in the Kesko Group. Since 2005, he has
worked as Company Secretary for Kesko's Board of Directors and its Committees as
well as the Group Management Board. Prior to that he worked for almost 10 years
as a lawyer in the Building and Home Improvement Trade and Agricultural Trade
businesses. Before transferring to that position, Majoinen had worked in Kesko's
Legal Affairs Department from 1990.

Kesko's current Group General Counsel, EVP Anne Leppälä-Nilsson will retire on
31 December 2017, in accordance with her contract.



Further information is available from Lauri Peltola, tel. +358 50 570 5606



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