New head for Stora Enso Timber
STORA ENSO OYJ Stock Exchange Release 15 April 2003 at 13.00
New head for Stora Enso Timber Peter Kickinger, 38, has been appointed Executive Vice President and head of Stora Enso Timber as of 1 May 2003. Mr Kickinger, currently Director, Business Planning in Stora Enso Timber, will succeed Arno Pelkonen, who has been appointed head of Stora Enso's new Forest Products Product Area. Mr Kickinger will join the Management Group and report to Arno Pelkonen, who will be based in Stora Enso's International Office, London. Peter Kickinger joined the Company in 1993, and is currently a member of Stora Enso Timber's Management Team. He is based in Vienna, Austria. For further information, please contact: Arno Pelkonen, Senior Executive Vice President, Timber Products, tel. +43 664 312 1849 Peter Kickinger, Director, Business Planning, Stora Enso Timber, tel. +43 664 182 5348 Kari Vainio, Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications, tel. +44 77 99 348 197 Stora Enso Timber is an international wood products company that provides customer-focused solutions to industry and trade worldwide. With annual net sales of EUR 1.2 billion excluding the Baltic Production Group, Stora Enso Timber's total annual production capacity is 6.7 million m3 of sawn wood products, including 2.4 million m3 of value-added products. The company employs 4 600 people in 23 softwood sawmills and 18 further processing plants in Europe. STORA ENSO OYJ p.p. Jussi Siitonen Pauli Mäkimaa