HKScan Oyj - Changes board/management/auditors

Appointment in HKScan’s Group Leadership Team

HKScan Corporation                                                Stock
exchange release 24.5.2017, at 13:00 (EEST) 


Appointment in HKScan’s Group Leadership Team

As part of HKScan’s operating model renewal (stock releases on 8 February and 3
May), the Group strengthens its Communications team with a new position. 

Mikko Saariaho (M.Sc., Business Administration) has been appointed as an
Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications and as a member of the Group
Leadership Team of HKScan Corporation. He will report to the President and CEO
Jari Latvanen and will start in his new position latest 1 November 2017. 

Mikko Saariaho joins HKScan from Finavia Corporation, where he holds a position
of Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications. 

HKScan Corporation
Jari Latvanen
President and CEO

For further information:
- Jari Latvanen, President and CEO, HKScan Corporation
Kindly submit a call-back request via Marja-Leena Dahlskog, SVP Communications,
tel. +358 10 570 2142 


HKScan is the leading Nordic food company. We sell, market and produce
high-quality, responsibly-produced pork, beef, poultry and lamb products,
processed meats and convenience foods under strong brand names. Our customers
are the retail, food service, industrial and export sectors, and our home
markets comprise Finland, Sweden, Denmark and the Baltics. We export to close
to 50 countries. In 2016, HKScan had net sales of nearly EUR 1.9 billion and
some 7 300 employees. 


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