Ruukki Group Oyj - Major shareholder announcements

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 regarding a change in shareholding. 

Nordea Bank AB (publ) (Swedish registration number 516406-0120) has on 21 March
2007 announced that the ownership of Nordea Bank AB's subsidiary Nordea Pankki
Suomi Plc (business ID 1680235-8) will fall below one tenth (1/10) of the share
capital and voting rights of Ruukki Group Plc as forward contracts expire in
April 2007. 

Nordea Bank AB (publ) announces hereby that on Friday 20 April 2007 its
subsidiary Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc purchased 1,843,483 shares of Ruukki Group
Plc partly through share transactions via the stock exchange and partly through
forward contracts. Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc now owns 26,681,963 RUG1V shares and
45,000 RUG1VN0107 shares, i.e. in total 26,726,963 shares, which represents
19.14% of the share capital and voting rights of Ruukki Group Plc. 

Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc has entered into Ruukki Group share forward contracts
of which 3,737,000 expires in June 2007, 475,000 in December 2007 and
22,521,100 in January 2008. As and when the January 2008 forward contracts
expire, the ownership of Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc will fall below one twentieth
(1/20) of the share capital and voting rights of Ruukki Group Plc. 

Ruukki Group Plc's registered number of shares is 139,615,737 and share capital
is EUR 23,638,649.60. Company shares are traded in two series: there are
135,963,737 old shares (trading code RUG1V) and 3,652,000 new shares (trading
code RUG1VN0107). 

RUUKKI GROUP PLC


Antti Kivimaa
Chief Executive Officer

Ruukki Group is a multi-sector industrial group having mainly majority
ownership interests in various small and medium-sized companies in e.g. house
building, sawmilling business, furniture business and care services. Ruukki
Group's share (RUG1V) is listed on OMX Nordic Exchange's so-called small cap
category. 

For further information, please contact:

Antti Kivimaa
Chief Executive Officer
Ruukki Group Plc
Telephone +358 400 501 780
www.ruukkigroup.fi