The shares issued in Wärtsilä's free share is...

Wärtsilä Corporation, Company announcement, 8 March 2011 at 12.15 EET

A total of 98,620,565 new shares issued in the free share issue decided upon in
Wärtsilä Corporation's Annual General Meeting 3 March 2011 have today been
entered in the trade register. The free share issue applies the pre-emptive
right of the shareholders, so that for each old share one new share would be
issued. Thereby, the total number of Wärtsilä shares after the share issue will
be 197,241,130. All shares will give equal shareholder rights. The free share
issue will be executed in the book-entry system and does not require any actions
by the shareholders. The new shares generate shareholder rights as of today and
will become traded publicly as of 9 March 2011.

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