Notice pursuant to the Securities Market Act, chapter 2, section 10: Shareholding of Franklin Templeton Group has increased in M-real Corporation (9 May, 2005)
M-real Corporation Stock Exchange Announcement 9 May 2005 at 12.30 p.m.
According to the information received by M-real Corporation, the shareholding
of the mutual funds by the affiliated investment advisers of Franklin Templeton
Group has on 3 May 2005 increased to 5.01 percent of the share capital and to
1.61 percent of the voting rights of M-real Corporation. Franklin Templeton
Group owns in total 16,435,970 M-real's B-shares.
M-REAL CORPORATION
Corporate Communications
M-real Corporation, headquartered in Finland and employing some 16,000 people,
is a European paper and paperboard company, providing premium solutions for
consumer packaging, communications and advertising end-uses. Through its
worldwide sales network, M-real serves its customers who mostly comprise
publishers, printers, paper merchants, offices and well-known consumer product
companies and carton printers. M-real is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
Its turnover in 2004 was EUR 5.5 billion.
www.m-real.com