HUHTAMÄKI OYJ STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 28.2.2008 AT 09.00
The Board of Directors of Huhtamäki Oyj has appointed M.Sc.(Econ.), MBA Jukka Moisio as the company's new CEO. He will start in his new position at the latest on August 29, 2008.
Mr Moisio (born 1961) joins Huhtamaki from the position of President and CEO of Ahlstrom Oyj. He has been working for Ahlstrom since 1991. In 2003 - 2004 he worked as Executive Vice President and Deputy to the President and CEO of Ahlstrom Corporation, and since 2004 as the CEO. From 2000 until 2004 he worked as President of the Fibre Composites division and prior to that as the CFO and Director of Business planning for Ahlstrom Paper Group.
"We are confident that Jukka Moisio's broad and long international experience from Ahlstrom makes him superbly qualified to take Huhtamaki to the next phase of development and achieve set targets under his leadership," says Mikael Lilius, the Chairman of the Board of Directors.
For further information, please contact:
Mikael Lilius, Chairman of the Board of Directors, mobile +358- 50-577 4138
Invitation to media and analysts
Mikael Lilius, Chairman of Huhtamaki's Board will introduce the new CEO Jukka Moisio at a press conference today, February 28, at 11.00 at the company's headquarters in Keilaniemi, Keilaranta 10. Welcome.
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Huhtamaki Group is a leading manufacturer of consumer and specialty packaging with 2007 net sales totaling EUR 2.3 billion. Consumer goods and foodservice markets are served by some 15,000 people in 66 manufacturing units and several sales offices in 36 countries. The parent company, Huhtamäki Oyj, has its head office in Espoo, Finland and is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Additional information is available at www.huhtamaki.com.