Flagging notification referred to in Chapter 2, Section 10, of the Securities Markets Act
KESKO CORPORATION STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 27.07.2010 AT 12.15 1(2)
The Kesko Pension Fund (Business ID 0200000-4) has today sold such a number of Kesko A shares owned by it to Kruunuvuoren Satama Oy, that its holding of Kesko Corporation shares, as a percentage of votes carried by all Kesko Corporation shares, falls below 5%, and respectively, the number of votes carried by shares owned by Kruunuvuoren Satama Oy (Business ID 2315359-5) exceeds 5% of votes carried by all Kesko shares.
Kesko Pension Fund's holdings after the share transaction:
Name of target company: Kesko Corporation (business ID 0109862-8)
| Share class | Number of shares | % of shares | % of votes |
| A share ISIN: FI0009007900 | 803,839 | 0.81 | 2.09 |
| B share ISIN: FI0009000202 | 1,000,000 | 1.01 | 0.26 |
| TOTAL | 1,803,839 | 1.83 | 2.35 |
Kruunuvuoren Satama Oy's shareholdings after the share transaction:
Name of target company: Kesko Corporation (business ID 0109862-8)
| Share class | Number of shares | % of shares | % of votes |
| A share ISIN: FI0009007900 | 2,635,046 | 2.67 | 6.86 |
| B share: ISIN: FI0009000202 | - | - | - |
| TOTAL | 2,635,046 | 2.67 | 6.86 |
The total number of Kesko shares is 98,641,292 of which 31,737,007 are A shares and 66,904,285 are B shares. Each A share carries ten (10) votes and each B share one (1) vote. Consequently, the total number of votes carried by all Kesko shares is 384,274,355.
Further information is available from Corporate Counsel Jarkko Karjalainen, telephone +358 1053 22602.
Kesko Corporation
Harri Utoslahti
Communications Manager
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