Apetit Oyj - Changes board/management/auditors

Change in Apetit Group’s Management Team

Apetit Plc, stock exchange release, 23 February 2017, 9.30 a.m.

Kaija Viljanen, Director of Apetit Group’s Grain Trade and Oilseeds Business
and Managing Director of Avena Nordic Grain Oy, has announced her decision to
retire by the end of 2017. 

Antti Snellman, M.Sc. (Tech.), has been appointed Director of the Grain Trade
and Oilseeds Business and Managing Director of Avena Nordic Grain Oy, under
which these businesses belong. He will join Apetit on 1 June 2017, and assume
responsibility for business operations on 1 September 2017. 

Snellman's previous employment was at Altia, where he headed the Starch and
Feed business unit, a part of the Industrial Services business, from 2010, and
the distillery and starch and feed production unit in Koskenkorva, which is a
part of the Supply Chain business, from 2011. Before Altia, Snellman was the
Sales and Marketing Director of Finnish Fibreboard Ltd, Project Manager at BMH
Wood Technology Ltd and worked in international water processing projects at
Hadwaco Ltd. 

Juha Vanhainen, CEO:

 “I am happy that Antti Snellman will continue Kaija Viljanen’s work. Antti is
a very experienced industrial professional who has proven his mettle in a range
of positions. He has management experience in business operations, production
and stakeholder relations in value chains in Finland and abroad. Antti’s
versatile experience will be an excellent foundation on which to continue the
successful development of the Grains Trade and Oilseeds Business at the head of
a very competent specialist organisation." 

”Under Kaija Viljanen's leadership the Grain Trade and Oilseeds Business has
been developed systematically and successfully. It has become an
internationally respected grain, oilseed and feedstuff raw material trader and
the most important oilseed products manufacturer in Finland. I believe I am not
alone in saying that her work has had an international impact. Her contribution
to the development of the grain trade and in the use of oilseed in foods and
feed and in improving cultivation conditions are beyond comparison. I want to
express my heartfelt gratitude to Kaija for her long and successful career." 



Apetit Plc



Juha Vanhainen
CEO



FURTHER INFORMATION
Juha Vanhainen, CEO, Apetit Plc, tel. +358 10 402 00


DISTRIBUTION
NASDAQ Helsinki
Principal media
www.apetitgroup.fi



Apetit is a Finnish food industry company firmly rooted in the primary
production of food. Our goal is to be a leader in the vegetable-based food
chain. We produce delicious and convenient fresh and frozen vegetable products
that enhance wellbeing. We produce high-quality vegetable oils and expeller
meal from rapeseed, and trade grain on international markets. We also process
fresh fish and prepare fish products. Apetit Plc’s shares are listed on NASDAQ
OMX Helsinki. In 2016, the company’s net sales were EUR 387 million and it
employed an average of 729 people. 

Avena Nordic Grain Oy, which is responsible for Apetit Plc’s Grain Trade and
Oilseeds Business, is Finland’s leading trader in grains, oilseeds, pulses and
feedstuffs, and is a manufacturer and supplier of vegetable oils and expeller.
Avena’s main market is the European Union, but it also trades in many other
markets. The company’s principal location is Helsinki, but it also operates in
other parts of Finland: Vaasa, Pori, Salo, Kirkkonummi, Loimaa, Hämeenlinna,
Kouvola and Porvoo. Its oil milling plant is located in Kirkkonummi.

Priedai:

CV_Antti-Snellman-EN_FINAL.pdf