Herttaässä flags changes in ownership

ALMA MEDIA CORPORATION  STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT 29 JUNE 2007, at 16.15
 
 
HERTTAÄSSÄ FLAGS CHANGES IN OWNERSHIP

The company has received information to the effect that Oy Herttaässä Ab’s (business ID code 0761658-8) holding in Alma Media Oyj (business ID code 1944757-4) is over 10 % due to a trade on 26 June 2007 as forward contracts were exchanged to shares.

 

Pursuant to the Securities Act, Chapter 2, Section 10, the company informs that Oy Herttaässä Ab’s total holding of Alma Media Corporation is now the following:

 

 

The share capital of Alma Media Corporation (business ID code 1944757-4) is 44.767.513.80 euros divided between 74.612.523 shares. The company has one share series. Each share carries one vote, and therefore the total number of votes is 74.612.523.

ALMA MEDIA CORPORATION

Nina Hedberg
Communications Officer, substitute for VP, Corporate Communications and IR

DISTRIBUTION: Helsinki Exchanges, principal media
 
Alma Media is a profitably growing and internationally expanding company that invests in the future of newspapers and the online media. Its best known products are Aamulehti, Iltalehti, Kauppalehti and Etuovi.com.
 
Net sales in 2006 totalled EUR 302 million and the operating margin was 16 %. The company’s share is listed in the Mid Cap segment of the OMX Nordic Exchange’s Nordic List, trading code ALN1V. More information at http://www.almamedia.fi/home