Kotipizza Group Oyj - Major shareholder announcements

Kotipizza Group Oyj: Sentica Partners exploring options for its ownership in Kotipizza

Stock Exchange Release 18 January 2017 at 8.10 am (EET)

Sentica Partners exploring options for its ownership in Kotipizza

Sentica Partners Oy has today published a press release in which it announces
that Sentica Partners Oy's funds "Sentica Buyout III Ky" and "Sentica Buyout III
Co-Investment Ky" (together, "Sentica Partners") have engaged Carnegie
Investment Bank and Pareto Securities to explore options for reducing their
ownership in Kotipizza Group Oyj ("Kotipizza") in one or several stages. Sentica
Partners currently owns 4,020,618 shares, representing 63.3 percent of all the
shares and votes in Kotipizza. Sentica Partners has been a shareholder in
Kotipizza since 2011 and is represented in Kotipizza's Board of Directors.

Kotipizza Group Oyj

Tommi Tervanen, CEO

More information:

Tommi Tervanen, CEO tel. +358 207 716 743

Kotipizza Group in brief

Kotipizza is a Finnish pizza chain founded in 1987. At the end of financial year
2015, the number of restaurants stood at 257 restaurants. In 2015, the sales of
Kotipizza restaurants were EUR 77.3 million. Kotipizza Group net sales were EUR
56.4 million for the financial year 2015 with a comparable EBITDA of EUR 5.03
million respectively.


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Kotipizza stock exchange release re Sentica press release_ENG.pdf