Holding(s) in Company

Holding(s) in Company

Smurfit Kappa Group PLC

Shareholding update following

TR1 announcement in SKG

SKG.I                 SKG.L

Dublin, London, 20 December, 2012: Smurfit Kappa Group PLC (“SKG” or the “Group”) has been informed that MDP Global Investors Limited has distributed the 17.6 million shares it held in SKG to its underlying investors and as a result its shareholding in SKG had reduced to 0.007%.

SKG’s free float increases to 98% from 91% as a result of the above transactions.

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Contacts
Seamus Murphy Smurfit Kappa Group   Tel: [phone] E-mail: [e-mail] Â		FTI Consulting     Tel: [phone] E-mail: [e-mail]
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About Smurfit Kappa Group

Smurfit Kappa Group (‘SKG’ or the ‘Group’) is a world leader in paper-based packaging with operations in Europe, Latin America and North America (‘the Americas’). The Group operates in 21 countries in Europe and 11 in the Americas. With innovation, service and pro-activity towards customers as its primary focus, SKG is the European leader in paper-based packaging including, Corrugated, Containerboard, Bag-in-Box Solidboard, and Solidboard packaging. It also has a key position in a number of other product/market segments, including Graphicboard, MG paper and Sack paper. SKG has a growing base in Eastern Europe and it is the only pan regional operator in Latin America.