LASSILA & TIKANOJA PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 1 APRIL 2003
The Annual General Meeting held on 1 April 2003 approved the Company’s and the Group’s income statements and balance sheets for the financial year 2002 and released the members of the Board of Directors and the President and CEO from liability.
The Annual General Meeting decided that a dividend of EUR 0.75 be paid for the year 2002 as proposed by the Board of Directors. The dividend will be paid on 11 April 2003 to all shareholders registered in the shareholders’ register maintained by the Finnish Central Securities Depository Ltd on the record date on 4 April 2003.
Heikki Hakala, Juhani Lassila and Juhani Maijala were re-elected to the Board of Directors for the period 2003-2004. The Board of Directors comprises the following persons: Heikki Hakala, Lasse Kurkilahti, Juhani Lassila, Juhani Maijala and Soili Suonoja.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy, Authorized Public Accountants, were elected auditors.
At a meeting held after the Annual General Meeting the Board of Directors re-elected Juhani Maijala as Chairman of the Board and Heikki Hakala as Deputy Chairman.
Helsinki, 1 April 2003
LASSILA & TIKANOJA PLC
Jari Sarjo
President and CEO
For additional information please contact Mr. Jari Sarjo, President and CEO, tel. +358 10 636 111.