Chairman of Board of Directors of Konecranes Plc has donated his shares in Konecranes to his related parties

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Konecranes Plc has on December 28, 2011 received information according to which the Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors Stig Gustavson has donated all of his shares in Konecranes Plc to his two daughters in equal proportions retaining himself the voting rights and right to dividend attached to the donated shares. The donation encompasses in total 2,069,778 shares which corresponds to approximately 3.27 percent of all of the company’s shares and voting rights. The transfer of the shares is executed in the book-entry securities system on December 28–29, 2011.

KONECRANES PLC

Miikka Kinnunen
Director, Investor Relations

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Miikka Kinnunen, Director, Investor Relations, Konecranes Plc, tel. +358 (0)20 427 2050


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 2010, Group sales totaled EUR 1,546 million. The Group has 11,400 employees at 578 locations in 46 countries. Konecranes is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).

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