Disclosure under Chapter 2, Section 10 of the Securities Market Act
KONECRANES PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE August 30, 2010 at 2.30 p.m.
Disclosure under Chapter 2, Section 10 of the Securities Market Act
Konecranes Plc (ID 0942718-2) has on August 30, 2010, received a disclosure
under Chapter 2, Section 9 of the Securities Market Act, according to which the
holding of BlackRock, Inc. (USA Tax ID 32-0174421) in Konecranes has decreased
below 10 percent. BlackRock, Inc. held 6,192,571 Konecranes' shares on August
24, 2010, which is 9.99 percent of Konecranes' shares and votes.
Konecranes has a total of 62,002,120 shares. The company has only one class of
shares and each share entitles to one vote.
KONECRANES PLC
Miikka Kinnunen
Director, Investor Relations
FURTHER INFORMATION
Konecranes Plc
Miikka Kinnunen, Director, Investor Relations, tel. +358 (0)20 427 2050
DISTRIBUTION
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd
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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 2009, Group sales totalled EUR 1,671 million. The Group has 9,600
employees, at more than 545 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on
the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).