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THE SALE OF ATRIA SHARES NOT CONVERTED TO BOOK-ENTRY SYSTEM

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Atria Group plc                STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE         17 July 2006


THE SALE OF ATRIA SHARES NOT CONVERTED TO BOOK-ENTRY SYSTEM

The Annual General Meeting of Atria Group plc on May 3, 2005, decided to sell, on
behalf of shareholders, company shares in a joint book-entry account which have
not been converted to the book-entry system. By the deadline of July 15, 2006, a
total of 24594 A-series shares had not been converted to the book-entry system.
The number of non-converted shares accounted for approximately 0,19 per cent of
the number of A-series shares and approximately 0,11 per cent of all company
shares.

Atria Group plc has now decided to sell these shares on behalf of the owners
through public offer, and to store the assets received from the sale, with costs
of notification and sales deducted, with the provincial government of Eastern
Finland.

After July 15, 2006, shares can no longer be transferred to the book-entry
system. Only an owner of shares in the joint account, or another assignee, is
entitled to receive sales profit from the shares in correspondence with the
shares owned.  The shareholder or another assignee must present a claim for the
assets and relinquish share certificates and possible clarifications of title at
Co-operative banks belonging to the OP Bank Group, or at OP Bank's securities
offices in Helsinki, or directly to the provincial government of Eastern Finland.
 The share of the assets will be paid, against the aforementioned documents, from
the provincial government of Eastern Finland's stored assets. In accordance with
prevailing legislation, the right to receive assets from the sale of the shares
will end in ten years' time from the date on which the assets were stored with
the provincial government.

For further information, please contact Mr Erkki Roivas, Financial Director, tel.
+358 400 160893.


ATRIA GROUP PLC

Erkki Roivas
Financial Director


DISTRIBUTION
Helsinki Stock Exchange
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www.atria.fi

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