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Annual General Meeting

Annual General Meeting of Metso Corporation was hold in Helsinki on Wednesday March 27, 2002.

The Annual General Meeting of Metso Corporation:

• approved the accounts for 2001
• voted to discharge the members of the Board of Directors and the President and CEO from liability for the 2001 financial year
• authorized the the Board of Directors to resolve to repurchase and to transfer the Corporation's own shares within one year of the shareholders' meeting
• authorized the the Board of Directors to increase the share capital by issuing new shares.within one year of the shareholders' meeting.

Dividend

Annual General Meeting decided to distribute a dividend of EUR 0.60 per share. Dividend was paid to those shareholders who were entered in the Corporation’s shareholder register maintained by the Finnish Central Securities Depository Ltd. on the record date for payment of dividend, i.e. on April 4, 2002. The actual payment of dividend took place on April 11, 2002.


Board of Directors

Pertti Voutilainen was re-elected the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Annual General Meeting. Mikko Kivimäki, President and CEO of Rautaruukki Group, was re-elected the Vice Chairman of the Board. Board members re-elected are Heikki Hakala, Metso's previous President and CEO, Chairman of the Board of Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company; Juhani Kuusi, Head of Nokia Research Center; Jaakko Rauramo, Chairman of the Board of SanomaWSOY Oyj and Sanoma Magazines B.V.; Markku Tapio, Director General, State Shareholding Unit, Ministry of Trade and Industry in Finland and Pentti Mäkinen, Chief Shop Steward, proposed by the personnel of Metso Corporation.


Auditors

Authorized Public Accountants, PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy, was re-elected as the Corporation’s auditor, the auditors with principal responsibility being Lars Blomqvist, Authorized Public Accountant, and Heikki Lassila, Authorized Public Accountant.

Attachments:

Annual General Meeting 2002 Presentation by CEO Tor Bergman (in Finnish)

Last updated Mar 08, 2010