SUBSCRIPTION OF SHARES WITH KONECRANES PLC’S OPTION RIGHTS AND CHANGE IN HOLDING OF TREASURY SHARES

KONECRANES PLC  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  December 19, 2012  at 09:30

A total of 33,040 of Konecranes Plc’s shares were subscribed for under the company’s stock option plans as follows:

The full subscription price of EUR 384,916 will be entered in the paid-in capital.

In accordance with Konecranes Plc’s Board of Directors’ resolution, treasury shares will be used for the share subscriptions. The subscribed shares will be delivered to the subscribers on December 19, 2012 on the basis of which the right to dividend and other shareholder rights shall commence. After the subscription and delivery of the shares, Konecranes Plc holds 5,981,032 treasury shares.

Stock options issued under Konecranes Plc’s ongoing stock option plans entitle their holders to subscribe for a total of 2,103,161 shares.

The terms and conditions of Konecranes Plc’s Stock Options 2009 are available at www.konecranes.com > Investors > Share information > Stock option plans.

KONECRANES PLC

Miikka Kinnunen
Director, Investor Relations

FURTHER INFORMATION
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 2011, Group sales totaled EUR 1,896 million. The Group has 12,100 employees at 609 locations in 47 countries. Konecranes is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).

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