Share subscriptions with Kesko's 2007C options

KESKO CORPORATION STOCK EXCHANGE NOTIFICATION 04.06.2014 AT 10.15 1(1)

Share subscriptions with Kesko's 2007C options

From 14 April to 30 April 2014, a total of 39,214 new company B shares were subscribed for with the 2007C options based on Kesko Corporation's 2007 option scheme. The subscribed shares have today been entered in the Trade Register. The whole subscription price of €425,079.76 is recorded in the company's reserve of invested non-restricted equity. As a result of the subscriptions, the number of the company's B shares has risen to 68,282,745. The new B shares will be available for public trading on Nasdaq OMX Helsinki together with the old B shares from Thursday, 5 June 2014.

From 14 April to 30 April 2014, a total of 39,214 new B shares were subscribed for with 2007C options. The share subscription price with 2007C options was €10.84.

After the subscriptions, the total number of company shares has risen to 100,019,752, of which 31,737,007 are A shares and 68,282,745 are B shares. Each A share carries ten votes and each B share one vote. After the subscriptions, the number of votes carried by the company shares is 385,652,815. The new B shares carry the right to dividend and other shareholder rights with effect from today.

The options were based on the resolution on the 2007 option scheme passed by the company's Annual General Meeting on 26 March 2007. Three units with an equal number of shares, i.e. 2007A, 2007B and 2007C, or an aggregate of 3,000,000 options were issued under the scheme. One option entitled its holder to subscribe for one new B share until the end of its exercise period. The exercise periods of the share options have expired.

The terms and conditions of the 2007 option scheme were published in a stock exchange release on 26 March 2007.

Further information is available from Corporate Counsel Saara Rautanen, telephone +358 10 53 22602.

Kesko Corporation

Merja Haverinen
Vice President, Group Communications

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