Notice pursuant to the Finnish Securities Market Act, chapter 9, section 10

Stock exchange releases

Konecranes  has on January 6, 2017, received a notification under Chapter 9, Section 5 of the Securities Market Act according to which the holding of Polaris Capital Management LLC in Konecranes Plc’s shares and votes has decreased below 5 percent due to dilution related to Konecranes Plc’s share issue.

Total positions of Polaris Capital Management LLC on January 5, 2017:

 

 

% of shares and voting rights (A)

% of shares and voting rights through financial instruments (B)

Total of both in % (A+B)

Total number of shares and voting rights of issuer

Resulting situation of the date on which the threshold was crossed of reached

4.34%

-

4.34%

82,872,342

Position of previous notification

5.01%

-

5.01%

-


Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold was crossed or reached:

Shares and voting rights
 

Class/type of shares

ISIN code

Number of shares and voting rights

Number of shares and voting rights

% of shares and voting rights

% of shares and voting rights

 

Direct (SMA 9:5)

Indirect (SMA 9:6 and 9:7)

Direct (SMA 9:5)

Indirect (SMA 9:6 and 9:7)

FI0009005870

-

3,597,639

-

4.34%

TOTAL

-

3,597,639

-

4.34%



KONECRANES PLC


Miikka Kinnunen
Vice President, Investor Relations



FURTHER INFORMATION
Mr. Miikka Kinnunen, Vice President, Investor Relations, tel. +358 (0) 20 427 2050



Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™, serving a broad range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards, ports and terminals. Konecranes provides productivity enhancing lifting solutions as well as services for lifting equipment of all makes. The Group has 18,000 employees at 600 locations in 50 countries. Konecranes class A share is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki (symbol: KCR).



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