Marjo Halonen appointed responsible for Metsä Board Communications

Metsä Board Corporation Press release 28 November 2016 at 10 am EET

Marjo Halonen (M.Econ.) has been appointed VP, Communications for Metsä Board, a part of Metsä Group, as of 1 January 2017. In this role she is responsible for the company’s marketing communications, other external communications excluding investor relations and internal communications.

Halonen moves to Metsä Board from Outokumpu Corporation, where she has since 2013 held several managerial positions in communications. Earlier she was responsible for PR and Communications activities of Specsavers Finland. Halonen has extensive experience from different communications and marketing tasks also in Metsä Board’s predecessor companies.

Metsä Board’s previous VP, Communications, Katri Kauppila has moved to another company.

METSÄ BOARD CORPORATION

Further information:
Mika Joukio, CEO, phone +358 10 465 4300


www.metsaboard.com

Metsä Board is a leading European producer of folding boxboards and white linerboards made from fresh fibres. Its lightweight paperboards are developed as the perfect fit for consumer goods, retail-ready and food service packaging. The pure fresh fibres Metsä Board uses are a renewable resource, traceable to origin in northern forests.

The global sales network of Metsä Board supports customers worldwide, including brand owners, converters and merchants. In 2015, the company’s sales totalled EUR 2.0 billion, and it has approximately 2,600 employees. Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.