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REGULATED INFORMATION

Finnish English
Panostaja Oyj - Notice to general meeting

CALL TO A GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS MEETING


Panostaja Oyj	Stock Exchange Release, December 29, 2009     15:45 PM            


CALL TO A GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS MEETING                                          

Panostaja Oyj's Annual General Meeting is due to be held on Wednesday 27th      
January 2010 at 10 am. at Museum Centre Vapriikki, at Alaverstaanraitti 5,      
Tampere.                                                                        

ISSUES COVERED AT THE GENERAL MEETING                                           

The General Meeting will cover standard Annual General Meeting issues as        
outlined in Article 9 of the Articles of Association, proposal to amend Article 
8 of the Articles of Association and the proposal of the Board to authorise the 
Board to decide on buying back own shares.                                      

PROPOSAL CONCERNING DIVIDEND                                                    

The Board of Directors proposes to the Annual General Meeting that a dividend of
0,12 Euros per share would be paid from the financial year ended 31.10.2009     
Those included in the Shareholder Register kept by Euroclear Finland Ltd. on the
dividend record date 1.2.2010 are entitled to receive dividends. Dividends will 
be paid out as from 8th February 2010.                                          

PROPOSAL CONCERNING THE AUDITORS                                                

The Board proposes to the AGM that PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy Authorized Public  
Accountants with Janne Rajalahti, APA, as responsible auditor, and Eero Suomela,
APA, to be appointed auditors for the term of office to continue until after the
next AGM.                                                                       

PROPOSAL CONCERNING THE AMENDMENT OF ARTICLE 8 OF THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION   

“8 § Call to general meeting and participation to general meeting.              

The call to general meeting must be delivered to shareholders earliest two (2)  
months and no later than three (3) weeks before the meeting and no later than   
nine days before the meeting record date, by a registered letter to shareholders
address as recorded in the shareholders register, by any other verified manner  
or by publishing the call at least in one national newspaper as decided by the  
shareholders meeting.                                                           

Shareholder must, in order to be able to attend the general meeting, notify the 
company of his attendance in advance on a date set forth in the call, and such  
date may not be earlier than ten (10) days before the meeting.”                 


AUTHORISING THE BOARD TO DECIDE ON BUYING BACK OWN SHARES                       

The Board proposes that the Board is authorised to decide on buying back own    
shares in one or more lots as follows:                                          

The decision(s) to buy back own shares must be limited to  such amount of       
shares, that together with the own shares owned by or pledged to the Company or 
its subsidiaries, is one tenth of all the shares in the Company.                

The shares will be bought in disproportion to shareholdings in public trading   
organised by the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd. at their current price in public      
trading at the time of purchase. The Purchases will be executed in accordance to
the rules of NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd. and Euroclear Finland Ltd.                

Authorisation is valid for 18 months of the AGM's authorisation decision.       
Authorisation revokes the authorisation of the Board to decide on buying back   
own shares given by previous AGM.                                               

RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE AND NOTICE OF PARTICIPATION                                

Participation in the Annual General Meeting is open to shareholders whose names 
appear on the Shareholder Register kept by Euroclear Finland Oy no later than   
15th of January 2010. Shareholders whose shares have been entered into their    
book-entry account are also registered in the company Shareholder Register.     
Shareholders registered under nominees can be notified to the Shareholder       
Register no later than 22.1.2010 for temporary registration into the Shareholder
Register allowing participation in the meeting.                                 

Shareholders wishing to attend the Annual General Meeting are required to notify
the company of their attendance in advance, no later than 10:00 AM EET on Friday
22rd January 2010, in writing to Ms. Sari Tapiola/Panostaja Oyj, P.O. Box 783,  
FI-33101 Tampere, Finland, by fax to +358 (0)10 2173 232 or by phoning Ms. Sari 
Tapiola on +358 (0)10 2173 211. Written notifications must arrive prior to      
expiration of the registration period. It is requested that any possible proxies
be delivered at the same time as registration.                                  

The financial statements and the proposals by the Board of Directors with       
annexes will be made available for inspection by shareholders one week prior to 
the meeting at Panostaja Oyj's head office at Postitorvenkatu 16, 33840 Tampere.
In addition copies of the documents presented in AGM will be made available in  
www.panostaja.fi on 6th of January 2010. Copies of these documents will be sent 
to shareholders on request.                                                     


Tampere, 29th December 2009 

PANOSTAJA OYJ, BOARD OF DIRECTORS