TALENTUM OYJ STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE FEBRUARY 26, 2008 AT 9.45 am TALENTUM OYJ STARTS ACQUISITION OF OWN SHARES The Board of Directors of Talentum Oyj, on the basis of an authorization granted by the Annual General Meeting on March 27, 2007, has decided to acquire a maximum of 500,000 of the company's own shares, which corresponds to about 1.13 per cent of the company's entire share capital. The shares will be acquired with the company's distributable earnings, thus reducing the company's distributable unrestricted equity. The shares will be acquired in public trading on the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki at the purchase-day price as has been enacted in legislation on the acquisition of shares in public trading. The company's own shares will be acquired for use as the consideration in possible corporate acquisitions and other arrangements when the company is acquiring assets relevant to its operating activities and for developing the company's main structure including the possible further assignment and cancellation of shares. There is, therefore, a pressing financial reason for acquiring the shares. The acquisition of the shares will begin at the earliest a week after the announcement of the decision by the Board of Directors and it will terminate at the latest on June 30, 2008. The acquisition of shares after March 27, 2008 is subject to the sufficient new authorisation by the AGM to the Board of Directors, in which case the acquisition will be made under the new authorisation. The company holds 181,000 of its own shares at this moment. The shares will be acquired within the framework of a purchasing programme in accordance with section 5 of Helsinki Stock Exchange's regulation on the acquisition of own shares and otherwise in accordance with stock exchange regulations applying to the acquisition of own shares. TALENTUM OYJ Lasse Rosengren General Counsel Further information Lasse Rosengren, General Counsel, tel. + 358 40 342 4204 Distribution: OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki Principal media