STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT
January 31, 2008 at 1.15 p.m.
Outokumpu's Board of Directors approved a share-based incentive
program as part of the key employee incentive and commitment system
of the company on February 2, 2006. Today 165 people have been
confirmed by the Board of Directors to be in the scope of the program
for its third earning period 2008-2010, which commenced on January 1,
2008.
The program offers a possibility to receive Outokumpu shares and cash
(equaling to the amount of taxes of the total reward) as an incentive
reward, if the targets set by the Board for each earning period are
achieved. The targets confirmed for the earning period 2008-2010 are
relative development of TSR (50 % of the maximum reward) and
achieving targets set for Operational Excellence programs (50 % of
the maximum reward). If the persons covered by the third earning
period were to receive the maximum reward, the aggregate maximum
number of shares to be distributed would be 264 900 shares.
According to the share ownership plan of the Outokumpu Group the
members of the Group Executive Committee are obliged to own Outokumpu
shares received under incentive programs for the value of their
annual gross base salary.
OUTOKUMPU OYJ
Corporate Management
Ingela Ulfves
VP - Investor Relations & Financial Communications
tel. +358 9 421 2438, mobile +358 40 515 1531, fax +358 9 421 2125
e-mail: ingela.ulfves@outokumpu.com
www.outokumpu.com
