Ruukki Group Oyj - Major shareholder announcements

ANNOUNCEMENT PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 2, SECTION 10 OF THE SECURITIES MARKET ACT

Ruukki Group Plc, Stock Exchange Announcement, 2 April 2008 at 9:05 a.m.        

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) announces that  
the ownership of its Finnish subsidiary Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc (business ID    
1680235-8) has on April 1 2008 acquired 15,000,000 Ruukki Group Plc shares.     
Simultaneously Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc has sold 150,000 forward contracts       
(15,000,000 shares) which expire in June 2008.                                  

Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc now holds 69,163,100 Ruukki Group Plc's shares; its     
ownership exceeds 1/5 and is 23.84 % of the share capital and voting rights of  
Ruukki Group Plc.                                                               

Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc has bought 2,200 (220,000 shares) Ruukki Group share    
forward contracts, which are due in April 2008. It has also sold forward        
contracts from which 203,501 (20,350,100 shares) will expire                    
in May 2008, 201,100 (20,110,000 shares) will expire in June 2008, and 289,196  
(28,919,600 shares) will expire in January 2009. As the May 2008 forward        
contracts expire, the ownership of Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc will fall below 1/5, 
and as the June forward contracts expire, below 1/10 and as the January 2009    
forward contracts expire, below 1/20 of the share capital and voting rights of  
Ruukki Group Plc.                                                               

Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc has purchased Ruukki Group shares as a part of its      
liquidity providing services.                                                   

Ruukki Group Plc's registered number of shares is 290,034,022 shares and share  
capital is EUR 23,642,049.60.                                                   

RUUKKI GROUP OYJ                                                                


Matti Vikkula                                                                   
Chief Executive Officer                                                         

Ruukki Group's strategic aim is to concentrate on wood processing within the    
Northern coniferous wood zone. Group business operations will be focused on     
mechanical wood processing, and furthermore on pulp business. Ruukki Group Plc's
share is listed on OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki in which the shares of the      
Company are traded in the mid cap sector, in the industrials segment.           
This stock exchange release is based on translation into English of a document  
written in Finnish. In case there would be any potential discrepancies,         
inconsistencies or inaccuracies, the Finnish version of the release shall       
prevail.