Konecranes Plc (ID 0942718-2) has today December 4th 2009, received a disclosure under Chapter 2, Section 9 of the Securities Market Act, according to which the holding of BlackRock, Inc. (USA Tax ID 32-0174421) in Konecranes increased to over 5 percent. BlackRock now holds 4,458,836 Konecranes’ shares which is 7.21% of Konecranes’ shares and votes.
On 1 December 2009, the Barclays Global Investors (BGI) business was acquired by BlackRock, Inc. The combined holdings of BlackRock, Inc. following this acquisition triggered this disclosure requirement.
Konecranes has a total of 61,849,720 shares. The company has only one class of shares and each share entitles to one vote.
Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™, serving a broad range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards, ports and terminals. Konecranes provides productivity-enhancing lifting solutions as well as services for lifting equipment and machine tools of all makes. In 2008, Group sales totalled EUR 2,103 million. The Group has 9,700 employees, at more than 485 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).
KONECRANES PLC
Miikka Kinnunen
IR Director
FURTHER INFORMATION
Konecranes Plc
Miikka Kinnunen, IR Director, tel. +358 (0)20 427 2050
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NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd
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