Konecranes Oyj - Changes in company's own shares

KONECRANES PLC - KONECRANES PERFORMANCE SHARE PLAN 2012 – DIRECTED SHARE ISSUE

KONECRANES PLC  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  March 23, 2015  at 09:45


The Board of Directors of Konecranes Plc has on 16 March 2015 decided on a
directed share issue related to the reward payment for the performance periods
2012 and 2012-2014 of Konecranes Performance Share Plan 2012. 

In the share issue, 55,007 Konecranes Plc shares held by the company have been
conveyed without consideration to the key employees participating in the plan
in accordance with the terms and conditions of the plan. More detailed
information about the launch and the terms and conditions of the plan is
available in a Stock Exchange Release published on 22 March 2012. 

The decision on the directed share issue is based on the authorization granted
to the Board of Directors by the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held on
27 March 2014. According to the authorization, a maximum of 700 000 shares may
be issued as part of the company's share-based incentive programmes. 

After the share delivery, the company holds a total of 4,676,635 own shares.


KONECRANES PLC

Miikka Kinnunen
Director, Investor Relations



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Mr. Miikka Kinnunen, Director, Investor Relations, tel. +358 20 427 2050

Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™, serving a broad
range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards,
ports and terminals. Konecranes provides productivity-enhancing lifting
solutions as well as services for lifting equipment and machine tools of all
makes. In 2014, Group sales totaled EUR 2,011 million. The Group has 12,000
employees at 600 locations in 48 countries. Konecranes is listed on the Nasdaq
Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V). 




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