Oriola-KD Corporation Stock Exchange Release 21 April 2008 at 3.00 pm Oriola-KD Corporation has completed the closing of the transaction to acquire Russian pharmaceutical retail and wholesale companies Vitim & Co and Moron Ltd on 21 April 2008. As part of the acquisition a Finnish company under the name Foreti Oy has been founded which fully owns the Moscow-based pharmacy retail company Vitim and the pharmaceutical wholesale company Moron. Oriola-KD's share of Foreti Oy after the transaction is 75 percent and the founders of Russian companies Igor Yankov and Oleg Yankov have together a 25 percent share of Foreti Oy. Oriola-KD Corporation Eero Hautaniemi President and CEO Kimmo Virtanen CFO Further information: Pellervo Hämäläinen Vice President, Communications and IR Tel. +358 (0)10 429 2497 Email: pellervo.hamalainen@oriola-kd.com Distribution: OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki Oy Principal media Released by: Oriola-KD Corporation Corporate Communications Orionintie 5 FI-02200 Espoo, Finland www.oriola-kd.com