Announcement in accordance with section 10 of chapter 2 of the Finnish Securities Market Act

In accordance with the Securities Market Act section 9 chapter 2, the Varma-Sampo Mutual Pension Insurance Company has notified Orion Corporation as follows:

 

The Varma-Sampo Mutual Pension Insurance Company has acquired Orion Corporation A-shares on 26 May, 2000. The transaction was based on the agreement of 5 November, 1998 between Varma-Sampo and Instrumentarium Corporation. Following the transaction, the ownership of Varma-Sampo in Orion Corporation exceeds 1/20 (one of twenty). The current ownership of Varma-Sampo of the Orion Corporation share capital is 3.59%. Varma-Sampo's share of the votes provided by all Orion A-shares is 6.61% and its share of the votes provided by all Orion B-shares is 0.42%, altogether 6.33% of the total votes.

 

After the transaction on 26 May, 2000, the ownership of Varma-Sampo in Orion Corporation is as follows:

 

Share category		Number of shares		% of total share capital		% of total votes in each share category		% of total votes
A-shares		2,284,929		3.38%		6.61%		6.31%
B-shares		138,121		0.20%		0.42%		0.02%
A- and B-shares total
		2,423,050		3.59%				6.33%

 

The total stock of Orion Corporation shares is 67,518,421, the nominal value of each being 1.70 euros. The number of A-shares is 34,565,547 and the number of B-shares is 32,952,874. Each A-share provides 20 votes and each B-share one vote. The share capital of Orion Corporation is 114,781,315.70 euros and the total number of votes is 724,263,814.

 

Orion Corporation

 

Pauli Torkko

 

Henry Haarla