STORA ENSO OYJ Stock Exchange Release 30 April 2003 at 11.00
Stora Enso appointments
Elisabet Salander Björklund, 44, has been appointed Executive
Vice President and head of Wood Supply Europe. Ms Salander
Björklund is currently Director, Raw Material and Fibre
Products, in Stora Enso Timber. She will join Stora Enso's
Management Group and report to Arno Pelkonen, head of the Forest
Products Product Area. Elisabet Salander Björklund joined the
Group in 1995, and is currently a member of Stora Enso Timber's
Management Team. She will be based in Stockholm.
The new Wood Supply Europe organisation, which is part of the
Forest Products Product Area, will bring together all the
Group's wood procurement units in Europe currently operating in
Sweden, Finland, Russia, the Baltic States and Continental
Europe.
Jarmo Alm, 49, has been appointed Senior Vice President,
Business Area Newsprint and Book Papers in Stora Enso
Publication Paper Division. The following units of the division
will be reporting to him: Anjala, Hylte, Kvarnsveden,
Langerbrugge, Sachsen, Summa, and Varkaus. Mr Alm is currently
Senior Vice President, Uncoated Magazine Paper and Pulp and a
member of the Stora Enso Magazine Paper management team. He was
employed by the Group in 1979-87, and rejoined in 1991. He is
based in Düsseldorf and reports to Bernd Rettig, Senior
Executive Vice President, Stora Enso Publication Paper.
Per-Olof Wedin, 47, has been appointed Senior Vice President,
Business Area Uncoated Magazine Paper and Pulp, Stora Enso
Publication Paper Division. The following units of the division
will be reporting to him: Kemijärvi, Maxau, Norrsundet, and
Reisholz. Mr Wedin joined the Group in 1998 and is currently
Senior Vice President, Stora Enso Transport and Distribution. He
will be based in Düsseldorf and report to Bernd Rettig, Senior
Executive Vice President, Stora Enso Publication Paper.
Stora Enso Publication Paper Division is part of the Paper
Product Area.
Ulf Eliasson, 40, has been appointed Mill Manager, Skoghall
Mill. He will be responsible for managing operations at the
Skoghall and Forshaga mills, and report to Niilo Pöyhönen,
Executive Vice President, Consumer Boards. Mr Eliasson joined
the Group in 1987 and is currently Production Manager, Board
Production at Skoghall.
The Consumer Boards Business Unit is part of the Packaging
Product Area.
All the above appointments will be effective as of 1 May 2003.
For further information, please contact:
Arno Pelkonen, SEVP, Forest Products, tel. +43 664 312 1849
Elisabet Salander Björklund, EVP, Wood Supply Europe,
tel. +46 70 578 2751
Jarmo Alm, SVP, Stora Enso Publication Paper,
tel. +49 211 581 2237
Per-Olof Wedin, SVP, Stora Enso Publication Paper,
tel. +46 8 613 66 20
Ulf Eliasson, Mill Manager, Skoghall Mill, tel. +46 706 514 350
Kari Vainio, EVP, Corporate Communications,
tel. +44 77 99 348 197
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