HKSCAN CORPORATION SUPPLEMENTS THE OFFERING CIRCULAR RELATING TO ITS SHARE OFFERING
HKScan Corporation STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 1 December 2009 at 3.30pm
NOT FOR PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, HONG KONG, JAPAN OR SOUTH AFRICA. HKSCAN CORPORATION SUPPLEMENTS THE OFFERING CIRCULAR RELATING TO ITS SHARE OFFERING HKScan Corporation (the “Company”, “HKScan”) has decided to supplement the offering circular consisting of registration document and offering note and relating to its share offering, dated 24 November 2009 (the “Offering Circular”). The Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority has on 1 December 2009 approved a document relating to supplementing of the Offering Circular (the “Supplementary Document”), which refers to HKScan's stock exchange release published on 1 December 2009 relating to the resignation of Lars Hultström from the Company's Board of Directors. An English language translation of the Finnish language Supplementary Document approved by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority has been appended to this release and will be available on the Company's Internet site www.hkscan.com as from 1 December 2009. The Supplementary Document will be available at the subscription places of the share offering and at the service point of NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd. as from 2 December 2009, at the latest. HKScan Corporation Board of Directors Further information: Matti Perkonoja, CEO of HKScan Corporation. Please leave any messages for him to call with Marjukka Hujanen on +358 (0)10 570 6218. DISCLAIMER: This announcement does not constitute or form part of an offer or solicitation to purchase or subscribe for securities in the United States. The securities referred to herein may not be sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended. HKScan Corporation does not intend to register any portion of the offering of the securities in the United States or to conduct a public offering of the securities in the United States. Copies of this announcement are not being made and may not be distributed or sent into the United States, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan or South Africa. The information contained herein shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the securities referred to herein in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration, exemption from registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. This communication does not constitute an offer of securities to the public in the United Kingdom. This communication is directed only at (i) persons who are outside the United Kingdom or (ii) investment professionals falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the “Order”) and (iii) persons falling within Article 49(2) (a) to (d) (“high net worth companies, unincorporated associations etc.”) of the Order (all such persons together being referred to as “relevant persons”). Any investment activity to which this communication relates will only be available to and will be engaged only with, relevant persons. Any person who is not a relevant person should not act or rely on this document or any of its contents. HKScan is one of the leading food companies in northern Europe with home markets in Finland, Sweden, the Baltics and Poland. HKScan manufactures, sells and markets pork and beef, poultry products, processed meats and convenience foods under several well-known local brand names. Its customers are retail, the HoReCa sector, industry and export customers. HKScan is active in nine countries and has some 10,000 employees. Annual net sales are 2.3 billion euro. DISTRIBUTION: Nasdaq OMX, Helsinki Main media www.hkscan.com ANNEX: SUPPLEMENT TO HKSCAN CORPORATIONS'S PROSPECTUS DATED 24 NOVEMBER 2009 1 December 2009 HKScan Corporation (the “Company”) supplements the prospectus dated 24 November 2009 related to the Company's offering and consisting of the registration document and the summary and offering note (the “Prospectus”) with the following information: Lars Hultström has on 1 December 2009 announced that he will resign from the Board of Directors of HKScan Corporation with immediate effect. Mr Hultström was elected to the Company's Board as a new member at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held on 23 April 2009 and he resigns from the Board on his own initiative. The above mentioned information supplements the sections “Summary - Management”, “Management - HKScan's Management - Board of Directors”, “Management - Holdings of the Board of Directors and Management Team” and “Management - Remuneration and Benefits of the Board of Directors and Management” in the Prospectus.