A total of 33,200 of Konecranes Plc’s new shares were subscribed for under the company’s stock option plans as follows:
| Stock option right | Shares | Subscription price (EUR/share) |
| 2001B-series | 33,200 | 8.50 |
The full subscription price of EUR 282,200 will be entered in the paid-in capital. Following the related subscriptions, the number of Konecranes Plc shares will increase to 62,002,120. This number includes the shares held by the company.
The shares subscribed for under the stock options were registered in the Trade Register on May 5, 2010 on the basis of which the new shares will establish shareholder rights. Konecranes will apply for their listing, together with its existing shares, on the Main List of the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. Trading in the new shares will begin on or around May 6, 2010.
Stock options issued under Konecranes Plc’s ongoing stock option plans entitle their holders to subscribe for a total of 3,390,000 shares. The terms and conditions of all of the company’s stock option plans are available at www.konecranes.com > investors.
The subscription period for B series stock options under the 2001 stock option plan ended on March 31, 2010.
The B series stock options entitled to subscriptions of a total of 600,000 shares. The subscription price was EUR 8.50 per share, and a total of 489,600 new shares were subscribed for under the plan. The full subscription price EUR 4,161,600 has been entered in the paid-in capital. The option rights that were not exercised by the end of the subscription period are no longer valid.
The stock option plan 2001 ended
A total of 998,000 new shares were subscribed under the series A and B of the program. Following the subscriptions made before March 8, 2007 Konecranes' share capital increased by EUR 228,000 and EUR 3,648,000 was booked into the share premium account. According to the decision made by the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 8 March, 2007, new shares subscribed for under Konecranes' option programs and recorded in the Trade Register will no longer increase the share capital, but will be booked entirely to the paid in capital.
KONECRANES PLC
Miikka Kinnunen
Director, Investor Relations
FURTHER INFORMATION
Miikka Kinnunen, Director, Investor Relations, Konecranes Plc,
tel. +358 20 427 2050
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NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd
Major media
www.konecranes.com
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 2009, Group sales totalled EUR 1,671 million. The Group has 9,600 employees, in 545 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd (symbol: KCR1V).
