Extraordinary General Meeting 2009

An Extraordinary General Meeting in Orkla ASA was held on Thursday,
10 December 2009, in Oslo.

All proposals on the agenda were adopted, cf. the notice of the
Extraordinary General Meeting that was sent to the Oslo Stock
Exchange on 30 October 2009.


The General Meeting adopted the following amendments to the Articles
of Association:

The Article 16, second paragraph, of the Articles of Association to
be read as follows:

"The Board of Directors may decide that documents concerning matters
to be considered at the general meeting are not to be sent to
shareholders when the documents are made available on the company's
website. This also applies to documents which by law shall be
enclosed in or attached to the notice of a general meeting. A
shareholder may nonetheless request that documents concerning matters
to be considered at the general meeting be sent to him or her."

Under the new section 5-11 b of the Public Limited Liability
Companies Act, the minimum period of notice for a general meeting in
an enterprise listed on a regulated market has been increased from
two weeks to 21 days.  According to this the general meeting proposed
to amend the Articles of Association section 15, first paragraph,
first sentence to:

"Ordinary or Extraordinary General Meetings shall be convened on not
less than 21 days' notice at a time and venue decided jointly by the
Chairman of the Corporate Assembly and the Board of Directors."

Shareholders who wish to be sent documents attached to the notice of
a general meeting, and/or the Annual Report, by post may order them
on www.orkla.com/investor. Alternatively, they may contact Orkla ASA,
P.O. Box 423 Skøyen, 0213 Oslo, Norway, reference "Annual Report".

Orkla ASA
Oslo, 10 December 2009

Contacts Orkla Investor Relations:
Rune Helland, Tel.: [phone]
Siv Merethe S. Brekke, Tel.: [phone]


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