Konecranes Plc: Notice pursuant to the Finnish Securities Market Act, Chapter 9, Section 10

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Konecranes has on May 25, 2017, received a notification under Chapter 9, Section 5 of the Securities Market Act, according to which the total holding of BlackRock, Inc. in Konecranes Plc’s shares and votes has exceeded 10 percent. On May 24, 2017, Blackrock Inc.’s total holding through shares and financials instruments amounted to 11.13 percent of Konecranes Plc’s shares and votes.

Total positions of BlackRock, Inc.:

 

% of shares and voting rights (A)

% of shares and voting rights through financial instruments (B)

Total of both in % (A+B)

Total number of shares and voting rights of issuer

Resulting situation of the date on which the threshold was crossed of reached

9.76%

1.36%

11.13%

82,872,342

Position of previous notification

7.69%

0.74%

8.44%

 


Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold was crossed or reached:

A: shares and voting rights

Class/type of shares

ISIN code

Number of shares and voting rights

Number of shares and voting rights

% of shares and voting rights

% of shares and voting rights

 

Direct (SMA 9:5)

Indirect (SMA 9:6 and 9:7)

Direct (SMA 9:5)

Indirect (SMA 9:6 and 9:7)

FI0009005870

 

8,096,353

 

9.76%

SUBTOTAL A

 

8,096,353

 

9.76%


B: Financial instruments according to SMA 9:6a

Type of financial instrument

Expiration date

Exercise/Conversion Period

Physical or cash settlement

Number of shares and voting rights

% of shares and voting rights

Securities Lent

N/A

N/A

Physical

493,381

0.59%

CFD

N/A

N/A

Cash

635,235

0.76%

SUBTOTAL B

 

 

 

1,128,616

1.36%


The disclosure obligation arose due to total holding in shares and voting rights for BlackRock, Inc. going above 10 percent.
 

Name

% of shares and voting rights

% of shares and voting rights through financial instruments

Total of both

BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited

8.60%

1.03%

9.63%


KONECRANES PLC

Miikka Kinnunen
Vice President, Investor Relations


FURTHER INFORMATION
Mr. Miikka Kinnunen, Vice President, Investor Relations, 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 of all makes. In 2016, Group (comparable combined company) sales totaled EUR 3,278 million. The Group has 17,000 employees at 600 locations in 50 countries. Konecranes class A shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki (symbol: KCR).

 

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