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Sampo Oyj : Disclosure Under Chapter 9 Section 5 of the Securities Market Act

SAMPO PLC     STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE     3 September 2015 at 4.15 pm



Disclosure Under Chapter 9 Section 5 of the Securities Market Act

Sampo plc (business code 0142213-3) has today received a disclosure under
Chapter 9, Section 5 of the Securities Markets Act, according to which the total
number of Sampo A shares (ISIN: FI009003305) owned by BlackRock, Inc. (USA tax
ID32-0174421) and the following funds has on 2 September 2015 increased above
five (5) per cent of Sampo plc's entire stock. The voting rights attached to the
shares do not exceed five (5) per cent of total number of voting rights.

+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|                                |Number of A shares|Share of total number of  |
|                                |                  |Sampo shares, %           |
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.    |           150,857|                      0.03|
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited |         3,213,837|                      0.57|
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|BlackRock Advisors. LLC         |           309,731|                      0.06|
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|BlackRock Asset Management      |           167,264|                      0.03|
|Canada Limited                  |                  |                          |
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|BlackRock Asset Management      |           553,754|                      0.10|
|Deutschland AG                  |                  |                          |
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|BlackRock Asset Management      |             3,087|                      0.00|
|North Asia Limited              |                  |                          |
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|BlackRock Financial Management, |           317,018|                      0.06|
|Inc.                            |                  |                          |
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|BlackRock Fund Advisors         |         4,284,223|                      0.77|
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|BlackRock Institutional Trust   |         6,933,696|                      1.24|
|Company, National Association   |                  |                          |
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|BlackRock International Limited |           283,322|                      0.05|
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|BlackRock Investment Management |           134,835|                      0.02|
|(Australia) Limited             |                  |                          |
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|BlackRock Investment Management |        10,501,030|                      1.88|
|(UK) Limited                    |                  |                          |
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|BlackRock Investment Management |           670,297|                      0.12|
|Limited, LLC                    |                  |                          |
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|BlackRock Japan Co, Ltd         |           599,804|                      0.11|
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+
|Total                           |        28,122,755|                      5.02|
+--------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------+


Sampo's share capital comprises 560,000,000 shares, of which 558,800,000 are A
shares and 1,200,000 are B shares. Each A share entitles its holder to one (1)
vote and each B share to five (5) votes. Thus, the total number of votes is
564,800,000.



SAMPO PLC

Jarmo Salonen

Head of Investor Relations and Group Communications
tel. +358 10 516 0030



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