NEOMARKKA PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 10.6.2010 at 16.00 NEOMARKKA TO START ACQUIRING ITS OWN SHARES Neomarkka Plc's Board of Directors has decided to exercise the authorization it was given by the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 9 June 2010 to acquire the Company's own series B shares. Under the authorization given by the AGM a maximum of 588,067 Company's own series B shares may be acquired. The shares will be acquired in public trading arranged by NASDAQ OMX Helsinki in accordance with its rules, and the consideration to be paid for the shares to be acquired must be based on market price. Neomarkka Board's decision to acquire company's own shares by contractual trade In addition Neomarkka Plc's Board of Directors has decided to exercise the authorization it was given by the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 9 June 2010 to acquire the Company's own series B shares by using the assets from company's unrestricted equity as follows: 1. The company may acquire maximum of 588,067 series B shares directly from other shareholders than the largest shareholder by contractual trade, provided that the number of class B shares to be acquired is at least 15,000; 2. The consideration to be paid for the shares corresponds to the prevailing market price in NASDAQ OMX Helsinki at the time of the acquisition; 3. The sales offer must be given to Neomarkka on 15 October 2010 at the latest; and 4. The shares acquired will be paid by the rules and regulations of stock exchange transaction. The shares will be acquired by contractual trade because the company has managed to acquire only small amounts of its own shares through NASDAQ OMX's Guidelines for Acquisition of Own Shares due to minor liquidity of Neomarkka's series B share on the stock market. Therefore, the company has strong economical reason to depart from the equal treatment of the shareholders by entering into contractual trade. Neomarkka Plc's Board of Directors decided to deviate from the procedures referred to in Clauses 3.2.1. and 3.2.2. of the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd's guidelines 3.2.5. related to own shares of the listed companies, because of the minor trading volume of the company's shares. The training volume on certain trading day may lead to that the acquisition of own shares of the company can be more than 50 percent of the average trading volume of that trading day. The acquisition of own shares shall be effected in a way that no exceptional market movements result from such trading and on that trading day the amount of the shares cannot exceed 5 percent of the maximum amount of the share acquisition in accordance with the decisions of the company. The shares are acquired to be used in order to carry out acquisitions or other arrangements within the scope of the company's business operations, to improve the company's capital structure, as part of implementing the company's incentive scheme, or to be further transferred for other purposes or to be cancelled. Neomarkka Plc Sari Tulander CFO FURTHER INFORMATION: Markku E. Rentto, Managing Director, tel. +358 207 209 191 Sari Tulander, CFO, tel +358 207 209 192 Neomarkka Plc's strategy is to invest mainly in industrial companies with similar synergic benefits. The aim of investments is with active ownership to develop the purchased companies and establish additional value. Returns are sought both through dividend flow and an increase in value. Neomarkka's B shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki main market.