Ruukki Group Plc has today received an announcement pursuant to Securities Market Act regarding a change in shareholding. Nordea Bank AB (publ) (Swedish registration number 516406-0120) has on 21 March 2007 announced that the ownership of Nordea Bank AB's subsidiary Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc (business ID 1680235-8) will fall below one tenth (1/10) of the share capital and voting rights of Ruukki Group Plc as forward contracts expire in April 2007. Nordea Bank AB (publ) announces hereby that on Friday 20 April 2007 its subsidiary Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc purchased 1,843,483 shares of Ruukki Group Plc partly through share transactions via the stock exchange and partly through forward contracts. Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc now owns 26,681,963 RUG1V shares and 45,000 RUG1VN0107 shares, i.e. in total 26,726,963 shares, which represents 19.14% of the share capital and voting rights of Ruukki Group Plc. Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc has entered into Ruukki Group share forward contracts of which 3,737,000 expires in June 2007, 475,000 in December 2007 and 22,521,100 in January 2008. As and when the January 2008 forward contracts expire, the ownership of Nordea Pankki Suomi Plc will fall below one twentieth (1/20) of the share capital and voting rights of Ruukki Group Plc. Ruukki Group Plc's registered number of shares is 139,615,737 and share capital is EUR 23,638,649.60. Company shares are traded in two series: there are 135,963,737 old shares (trading code RUG1V) and 3,652,000 new shares (trading code RUG1VN0107). RUUKKI GROUP PLC Antti Kivimaa Chief Executive Officer Ruukki Group is a multi-sector industrial group having mainly majority ownership interests in various small and medium-sized companies in e.g. house building, sawmilling business, furniture business and care services. Ruukki Group's share (RUG1V) is listed on OMX Nordic Exchange's so-called small cap category. For further information, please contact: Antti Kivimaa Chief Executive Officer Ruukki Group Plc Telephone +358 400 501 780 www.ruukkigroup.fi
ANNOUNCEMENT PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 2, SECTION 10 OF THE SECURITIES MARKET ACT
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