Metsäliitto Cooperative signs a EUR 400 million Syndicated Credit Facility

Metsä Group Stock Exchange Release 20 December 2013 at 13.00

Metsä Group’s parent company Metsäliitto Cooperative has today signed a new EUR 400 million syndicated credit facilities agreement. The loan is used to refinance the current syndicated facility maturing in April 2014. The new facilities mature in February 2019. Pohjola acted as coordinator of the facility. Other arrangers were Danske Bank, DNB, Nordea, Swedbank and SEB.


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Metsä Group is a responsible forest industry group whose products’ main raw material is renewable and sustainably grown Nordic wood. Metsä Group focuses on tissue and cooking papers, consumer packaging paperboards, pulp, wood products, and wood supply and forest services. Its high-quality products combine renewable raw materials, customer-orientation, sustainable development and innovation. Metsä Group’s sales totalled EUR 5.0 billion in 2012, and it employs approximately 11,500 people. The Group operates in some 30 countries. Metsäliitto Cooperative is the parent company of Metsä Group and is owned by approximately 125,000 Finnish forest owners.