Kemira Oyj establishes a new share-based incentive plan for management and key employees


Kemira Oyj
Stock Exchange Release
December 16, 2014 at 1.00 pm (CET+1)

The Board of Directors of Kemira Oyj has decided to establish a new long-term share-based incentive plan directed to a group of key employees in Kemira. The aim of the new plan is to combine the objectives of the shareholders and the persons participating in the plan in order to increase the value of Kemira, to commit the participants to Kemira, and to offer them a competitive reward plan based on earning Kemira's shares. 

The new Performance Share Plan includes three performance periods, calendar years 2015, 2016 and 2017. The Board of Directors of Kemira will decide on the Plan's performance criteria and on the required performance levels for each criterion at the beginning of each performance period. The potential reward of the Plan from the performance period 2015 will be based on the Kemira Group's revenue and on the Group's operative EBITDA margin.

The potential reward from the performance period 2015 will be paid partly in Kemira's shares and partly in cash in 2016. The cash proportion is intended to cover taxes and tax-related costs arising from the reward to the participant. As a rule, no reward will be paid, if a participant's employment or service ends before the reward payment.

The shares paid as reward may not be transferred during the restriction period, which will end two years from the end of the performance period. Should a participant's employment or service end during the restriction period, as a rule, he or she must gratuitously return the shares given as reward.

The Board of Directors recommends that a member of the Management Board will own such number of Kemira's shares that the total value of his or her shareholding corresponds to the value of his or her annual gross salary as long as the membership continues. If this recommendation is not yet fulfilled, the Board of Directors recommends that a member of the Management Board will hold 50 per cent of the net number of shares given on the basis of this plan also after the end of the restriction period, as long as his or her shareholding in total corresponds to the value of his or her annual gross salary.

The Performance Share Plan is directed to approximately 90 people. The rewards to be paid on the basis of the 2015 earning period of the Performance Share Plan correspond to the value of an approximate maximum total of 585,000 Kemira Oyj shares and additionally the cash proportion intended to cover taxes and tax-related costs.

Kemira Oyj
Board of Directors


For more information, please contact

Kemira Oyj
Jukka Hakkila, Group General Counsel
Tel. +358 10 862 1690

Tero Huovinen, VP, Investor Relations
Tel. +358 10 862 1980                                   

Kemira is a global chemicals company serving customers in water-intensive industries. We provide expertise, application know-how and chemicals that improve our customers' water, energy and raw material efficiency. Our focus is on pulp & paper, oil & gas, mining and water treatment. In 2013, Kemira had annual revenue of EUR 2.2 billion and around 4,500 employees. Kemira shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd.
www.kemira.com


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