Metsäliitto Osuuskunta - Changes board/management/auditors

Ilkka Hämälä appointed President and CEO of Metsä Group as of 1 April 2018

Metsä Group Stock Exchange Release 4 May 2017 at 2.30 pm EET



Metsäliitto Cooperative’s Supervisory Board has in its meeting on 4 May 2017
appointed M.Sc (Engineering) Ilkka Hämälä the CEO of Metsäliitto Cooperative as
of 1 January 2018. Hämälä starts as the President and CEO of Metsä Group on 1
April 2018. Kari Jordan, the President and CEO since 2006, is responsible for
Metsä Group’s result until the end of 2017 and will retire on 1 April 2018. 

Hämälä has worked for Metsä Group since 1988. Since 2008 he has been the CEO of
Metsä Fibre Oy and a member of Metsä Group Executive Management Team. 

More information about Ilkka Hämälä on www.metsagroup.com.


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Juha Laine, SVP, Communications, Metsä Group, tel. +358 10 465 4541



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Metsä Group is a forerunner in sustainable bioeconomy utilising renewable wood
from sustainably managed northern forests. Metsä Group focuses on wood supply
and forest services, wood products, pulp, fresh fibre paperboards and tissue
and cooking papers. 

Metsä Group’s sales totalled EUR 4.7 billion in 2016, and it employs
approximately 9,300 people. The Group operates in some 30 countries.
Metsäliitto Cooperative is the parent company of Metsä Group and owned by
approximately 104,000 Finnish forest owners. 

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