KONECRANES PLC - KONECRANES PERFORMANCE SHARE PLAN 2012 – DIRECTED SHARE ISSUE

The Board of Directors of Konecranes Plc has on 16 March 2015 decided on a directed share issue related to the reward payment for the performance periods 2012 and 2012-2014 of Konecranes Performance Share Plan 2012.

In the share issue, 55,007 Konecranes Plc shares held by the company have been conveyed without consideration to the key employees participating in the plan in accordance with the terms and conditions of the plan. More detailed information about the launch and the terms and conditions of the plan is available in a Stock Exchange Release published on 22 March 2012.

The decision on the directed share issue is based on the authorization granted to the Board of Directors by the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held on 27 March 2014. According to the authorization, a maximum of 700 000 shares may be issued as part of the company’s share-based incentive programmes.

After the share delivery, the company holds a total of 4,676,635 own shares.

KONECRANES PLC

Miikka Kinnunen
Director, Investor Relations

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Mr. Miikka Kinnunen, Director, Investor Relations, tel. +358 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 and machine tools of all makes. In 2014, Group sales totaled EUR 2,011 million. The Group has 12,000 employees at 600 locations in 48 countries. Konecranes is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).

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