LÄNNEN TEHTAAT PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 11 July 2008 at 12;30 p.m. SALE OF SHARES IN THE JOINT BOOK-ENTRY ACCOUNT Lännen Tehtaat plc has on its Annual General Meeting on 29 March 2007 decided on the sale through public trading of shares which have been entered in the joint book-entry account opened with the Finnish Central Securities Depository and for which registration of the ownership right in a book-entry account has not been demanded in spite of the fact that five years have passed from the date of the registration date. The decision was made under chapter 3a, section 3a of the Companies Act (734/1978) and section 8 of the Implementing Act of the new Companies Act (624/2006). Shareholders hade to demand within one year from a request based on the decision of the Annual General Meeting that their ownership right be registered or they will forfeit their right to the shares and only keep the right to the funds obtained from the sale of the shares. The said request has been published in the Official Gazette on 6 July 2007 and the one year time limit elapsed on 6 July 2008. The company will sell the shares in the public trading. The amount of the shares that will be sold was on 10 July 52,078 shares. The sale will not start before August 2008. LÄNNEN TEHTAAT PLC Asmo Ritala Corporate councel More details: Asmo Ritala, tel. +358 10 402 4005 Distribution: OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki Main media www.lannen.fi