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Financial reporting calendar and key dates in 2011

Year 2010 financial statements release 3 Feb. 2011
  • Year 2010 Annual Report and audited financial statements      Week109
  • Year 2011 Annual General Meeting 4 April 2011
  • Interim report for the first three months of 2011 28 April 2011
  • Interim report for the first six months of 2011 26 July 2011
  • Interim report for the first nine months of 2011 26 Oct. 2011


In addition, the Kesko Group’s sales figures are published monthly and the K-Group’s retail sales figures in connection with the interim reports.

General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting of Kesko Corporation will be held in the Helsinki Fair Centre’s congress wing, Messuaukio 1 (congress wing entrance), Helsinki, on 4 April 2011 at 13.00.

Shareholders included in Kesko Corporation’s shareholder register, kept by Euroclear Finland Ltd, on 23 March 2011 (Annual General Meeting record date) are entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting. Shareholders whose shares are registered in their personal Finnish book-entry account are included in the company’s shareholder register.

Shareholders wishing to attend the meeting should notify, not later than 30 March 2011 at 16.00, either by post addressed to Kesko Corporation/Legal Affairs, FI-00016 Kesko, by fax to +358 1053 23421, by telephone to +358 1053 23211, by e-mail to taina.hohtari@kesko.fi, or through the Internet at www.kesko.fi/investors. The notification must be received by the end of the registration period. Any proxies authorising the holders to attend the Annual General Meeting shall be sent to the above postal address by the end of the registration period.

Holders of nominee registered shares are advised to request necessary instructions for registering in the shareholder register, submitting proxies and registering for the Annual General Meeting from their custodian banks. The account operator of the custodian bank reports the information on the owner of a nominee registered share wishing to attend the Annual General Meeting for entry into the company’s temporary shareholder register not later than 30 March 2011 at 10.00.

More information about the Annual General Meeting, attendance and decision-making is given at Corporate Governance.

The resolutions of the Annual General Meeting are published without delay after the meeting in a stock exchange release.

Payment of dividends

The Board of Directors has decided to propose to the Annual General Meeting that a dividend of €1.30 per share be paid for 2010. The dividend will be paid to all shareholders included in the register of Kesko Corporation’s shareholders kept by Euroclear Finland Ltd on 7 April 2011 (record date for the payment of dividend). The registration takes three banking days, so the dividends are paid to those who hold the shares at the close of the date of the Annual General Meeting on 4 April 2011. Dividends on the shares traded on the date of the Annual General Meeting are paid to buyers.

According to the Board of Directors’ proposal, the payment of dividends starts on 14 April 2011.

Financial publications

Kesko publishes a printed Annual Report in Finnish and English. The company maintains an Annual Report mailing list. To be added to the mailing list, please go to the company’s website www.kesko.fi/media.

The Annual Report, three interim reports, monthly sales figures and other key releases are available on the company’s website at www.kesko.fi/media.

Kesko publishes a printed Corporate Responsibility Report in Finnish and English.

Publications may be ordered from

Kesko Corporation/Corporate Communications and Responsibility
Satamakatu 3
FI-00016 Kesko
Tel. +358 1053 22404
www.kesko.fi/media

Changes of address

Shareholders should notify changes of address to the bank, brokerage firm or other account operator with which they have a book-entry securities account.