ANNOUNCEMENT PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 2, SECTION 10 OF THE SECURITIES MARKET ACT

Ruukki Group Plc, Stock Exchange Release, 1 July 2008 at 12:35 p.m. 

Ruukki Group Plc has received an announcement pursuant to Securities Market Act 
chapter 2, section 9 regarding a change in shareholding.                        

Nordea Bank AB (publ) (Swedish registration number 516406-0120) announces that  
its Finnish subsidiary Nordea Bank Finland Plc (business ID 1680235-8) has on 30
June 2008 sold altogether 11,847,000 Ruukki Group Plc's shares.                 

Nordea Bank Finland Plc now holds 51,459,862 Ruukki Group Plc shares i.e. Nordea
Bank Finland Plc's ownership of Ruukki Group Plc's share capital and voting     
rights has fallen below 1/5 being 17.74 %.                                      

Nordea Bank AB (publ) holds 347 Ruukki Group Plc shares i.e. 0.001 % of the     
share capital and voting rights of Ruukki Group Plc.                            

The total ownership of Nordea Group in Ruukki Group Plc is 51,460,209 Ruukki    
Group Plc shares. As a result, Nordea Group's total ownership has fallen below  
1/5 being 17.74 % of the share capital and voting rights of Ruukki Group Plc.   

In addition, Nordea Bank Finland Plc has made forward contracts regarding Ruukki
Group Plc. Altogether 120,000 bought forward contracts (12,000,000 shares) will 
expire on 4 July 2008 and 42,000 sold forward contracts (4,200,000 shares) on 18
July 2008, 2,000 bought forward contracts (200,000 shares) will expire in       
September 2008, and 87,742 sold forward contracts (8,774,200 shares) will expire
in December 2008 and 506,283 sold forward contracts (50,628,300 shares) in      
January 2009. As the forward contracts expire on 4 July 2008, the ownership of  
Nordea Bank Finland Plc and Nordea Group will rise over 1/5. As the December    
2008 forward contracts expire Nordea's ownerhips in Ruukki Group Plc will fall  
below 1/5 and in January fall below 1/20.                                       

Nordea Bank Finland Plc has purchased Ruukki Group shares as a part of its      
market making operations.                                                       

Ruukki Group Plc's registered number of shares is 290,034,022 shares and share  
capital is EUR 23,642,049.60.                                                   

RUUKKI GROUP OYJ                                                                

Matti Vikkula                                                                   
Chief Executive Officer                                                         

Ruukki Group Plc's share is listed on OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki in which the 
shares of the Company are traded in the mid cap segment, in the industrials     
sector.                                                                         

For additional information, please contact:                                     

Matti Vikkula                                                                   
Chief Executive Officer                                                         
Ruukki Group Plc                                                                
Tel. + 358 10 440 7002                                                          
www.ruukkigroup.fi                                                              
                                                                                
This stock exchange release is based on translation into English of a document  
written in Finnish. In case there would be any potential discrepancies,         
inconsistencies or inaccuracies, the Finnish version of the release shall       
prevail.