Metsä Group's Annual Report 2012 published

Metsä Group Stock Exchange Release 27 March 2013 at 13.00 EET


Metsä Group’s Annual Report for the year 2012 has been published on the Group’s web site at http://www.metsagroup.com/ in English, Finnish and Swedish in PDF format. The Annual Report includes Financial Statements, Report of the Board of Directors, Corporate Governance Statement and Salary and Remuneration Report. Printed copies in English, Finnish and Swedish are available as of 11 April 2013. Requests for printed copies can be submitted by filling in an order form on the Group’s website or by e-mail from communications@metsagroup.com.

Metsä Group’s has also published a Sustainability Report. The report is available in English at www.metsagroup.com/sustainability.


METSÄ GROUP
Group communications

For further information, please contact:
Reeta Kaukiainen, Senior Vice President, Communications, Metsä Group, tel. +358 50 522 0924


www.metsagroup.com

Metsä Group is a responsible forest industry group whose products’ main raw material is renewable and sustainably grown Nordic wood. Metsä Group focuses on tissue and cooking papers, consumer packaging paperboards, pulp, wood products, and wood supply and forest services. Its high-quality products combine renewable raw materials, customer-orientation, sustainable development and innovation. Metsä Group’s sales totalled EUR 5.0 billion in 2012, and it employs approximately 11,500 people. The Group operates in some 30 countries. Metsäliitto Cooperative is the parent company of Metsä Group and is owned by approximately 125,000 Finnish forest owners.