HONKARAKENNE OYJ Stock Exchange Release 21.3.2018 at 9:00 a.m.
PROPOSAL ON BOARD MEMBERS TO HONKARAKENNE OYJ’S GENERAL MEETING
A shareholder that controls over 37% of the votes carried by the company’s shares, proposes to the Honkarakenne Oyj Annual General Meeting that the number of Board Members, on the Board to be elected, be confirmed to be five, and that the current memberss of the Board, Timo Kohtamäki, Arimo Ristola and Kyösti Saarimäki to be re-elected. The new Board Members to be elected are Helena Ruponen and Kari Saarelainen.
The curriculum vitae of the Board Members who have been proposed for re-election are available on the company’s website at http://www.honka.com/en/board-directors.
The curriculum vitae of Helena Ruponen and Kari Saarelainen are to be found below.
HONKARAKENNE OYJ
Arimo Ristola
Chairman of the Board
Further information:
President and CEO Marko Saarelainen, tel +358 40 542 0254, marko.saarelainen@honka.com
DISTRIBUTION
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
Key media
Financial Supervisory Authority
www.honka.com
Under its Honka® brand, Honkarakenne manufactures high-quality, healthy and ecological detached houses, holiday homes and public buildings using Finnish solid wood. The company has delivered 85,000 buildings to more than 50 countries. House packages are made at the company’s own factory in Karstula, Finland. In 2017, the Honkarakenne Group had net sales of MEUR 43.4, of which exports accounted for 41%. www.honka.com
HELENA RUPONEN
• Born in 1961 in Pielisjärvi
• Vocational Qualification in Business and Administration, Ikaalisten kauppaoppilaitos, 1980, Qualification for financial manager, Markkinointi-Instituutti 1992
• Various positions at Honkarakenne Oyj sales and marketing and finance 1984-2007, Honkarakenne Oyj Board secretary 1996-2001, Honkarakenne Oyj Board member 2002—2003, Oy Timberhead Ltd finance manager and secretary of the Board 2007-2010, Saarelainen Oy Board member 2012-
• Holds 55,700 Honkarakenne B shares.
• Not independent of the major shareholders.
• Independent of the company
KARI SAARELAINEN
• Born in 1962 in Pielisjärvi
• M.Sc. in Economics, Jyväskylä University 1992
• Manager at Artepro Oy 2004-, Partner and Chairman of the Board at Artepro Oy 1999-, Chairman of the Board at Saarelainen Oy 2017-, Chairman of the Board at Veljekset Saarelaisen säätiö sr 2017-, Member of the Board at Honkarakenne Oyj 2004-2008, Export manager at Honkarakenne Oyj, Austria and Switzerland 2001-2004, Member of the Board at Epira Oy 2005-2010 ja CEO at Epira Oy 1992-2001.
• Holds 5,950 Honkarakenne A shares and 16,118 Honkarakenne B shares.
• Not independent of the major shareholders.
• Independent of the company