Metsäliitto Group Stock Exchange Release 10 August 2010 at 10 The Board of Directors of Metsäliitto Cooperative has decided to finance the holding company of Metsäliitto Group's Executive Management in a system whose purpose is to encourage members of the Executive Management to acquire and own M-real Corporation's shares and, through this, to increase the shareholder value of Metsäliitto Group over the long term and support the achievement of the Group's strategic objectives. Through the system, the management personally invest a considerable amount of their own funds in M-real's B shares. The management persons finance their investment partly themselves and partly through loans from Metsäliitto Cooperative. The management shoulder themselves the ownership risk for the investment they make in the system. For the shareholdings, members of the Executive Management acquire a company entitled Metsäliitto Management Oy, whose entire stock they own. The purpose of Metsäliitto Management is to acquire M-real's B shares from the market or members of the Executive Management at market prices. The share acquisitions are financed through a capital input of about EUR 3,850,000 in Metsäliitto Management by members of the Executive Management and through a loan of up to EUR 15,400,000 taken out from Metsäliitto Cooperative. Some of the members of the Executive Management finance their capital input in Metsäliitto Management by selling M-real's B shares they own to Metsäliitto Management or to the market. As part of the system, Metsäliitto's Board of Directors has decided to give an interest-bearing loan of up to EUR 15,400,000 to finance the acquisition of M-real's B shares. The loan will be repaid in its entirety by 31 March 2014. If the validity of the system will be continued one year at a time in 2013, 2014, 2015 or 2016, the loan period will be extended correspondingly. Metsäliitto Management has the right to repay the loan prematurely at any time. Metsäliitto Management is obligated to repay the loan prematurely by selling M-real's shares held by it if the stock exchange price of M-real Corporation's B share otherwise than temporarily exceeds a certain level defined in the system. The system remains in force until the end of 2013 and beginning of 2014, at which time the intention is to dismantle the system in a manner to be decided later. The system will be extended one year at a time if, in October-November 2013, 2014, 2015 or 2016, the stock exchange price of M-real's B share is lower than the average price at which Metsäliitto Management acquired M-real's B shares it owns. The assignment of M-real's B shares owned by Metsäliitto Management is restricted during the validity of the system. As a rule, the ownership of members of the Executive Management in Metsäliitto Management remains in force until the dismantling of the system. METSÄLIITTO COOPERATIVE Further information: Martti Asunta, Chairman of the Board of Directors, tel. +358 40 829 93 93