Notification of a change in ownership interest under Chapter 2, Section 9 of the Finnish Securities Market Act

KESKO CORPORATION STOCK EXCHANGE NOTIFICATION 04.10.2007

Notification of a change in ownership interest under Chapter 2,
Section 9 of the Finnish Securities Market Act

Under Chapter 2, Section 9 of the Finnish Securities Market Act,
Kesko Corporation has been notified by Barclays Plc that the
aggregate ownership interest of Barclays Plc's fund management
companies in Kesko Corporation shares has exceeded
5% on 4 April 2007.

The name of the target company: Kesko Corporation (business ID
0109862-8)

The date of the change in ownership interest: 4 April 2007

Shareholder: Barclays Plc's (registered as a public limited
company in England and Wales under No. 48839) fund management
companies

Shareholder's    Number of Kesko  Proportion of    Proportion of
complete name    Corporation B    shares           voting rights
                 shares           (4.4.2007)       (4.4.2007)
Barclays Global  71,357           0.07%            0.02%
Investors Japan
Trust & Banking
Barclays Global  246,863          0.25%            0.06%
Investors Japan
Ltd
Barclays Global  1,694,748        1.74%            0.44%
Investors Ltd
Barclays Bank    38,630           0.04%            0.01%
SA
Indexchange      1,028,323        1.05%            0.27%
Investments AG
Barclays Global  2,118,857        2.17%            0.55%
Investors NA
Barclays Global  44,329           0.05%            0.01%
Fund Advisors
Barclays Global  5,386            0.01%            0.00%
Investors
Canada Ltd
TOTAL            5,248,493        5.38%            1.37%


On 4 April 2007, Kesko Corporation had a total of 97,543,113
shares, of which 31,737,007 were A shares and 65,806,106 B shares.
Each A share entitles the holder to ten votes and each B share to
one vote. Hence, the total number of votes carried by Kesko
Corporation's shares on 4 April 2007 was 383,176,176.

After the share capital increase of 26 September 2007, the total
number of Kesko Corporation's shares is 97,759,815, of which
31,737,007 are A shares and
66,022,808 B shares. The total number of votes carried by the
shares is 383,392,878.

Further information is available from Corporate Counsel Jarkko
Karjalainen, tel. +358 1053 22602.


Kesko Corporation



Jarkko Karjalainen
Corporate Counsel


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