SAMPO PUBLISHES ANNUAL REPORT 2006

SAMPO PUBLISHES ANNUAL REPORT AND CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY REPORT 

Sampo has published its Annual Report for 2006.

The Annual Report is available at www.sampo.com/vuosikertomus in Finnish, at

www.sampo.com/annualreport in English, and at www.sampo.com/arsredovisningar in

Swedish. The financial statements of the Group's subsidiaries and the Corporate

Responsibility Report 2006 are also available at the above websites.


The Annual Report will be sent automatically to shareholders holding at least

2,000 Sampo plc shares.


Printed Annual Reports can be ordered by using the order forms at Sampo's

Annual Report websites, by fax at [phone], or by phone at [phone]

0066.


SAMPO PLC


Jarmo Salonen

Head of Investor Relations and Group Communications

Tel. [phone]


DISTRIBUTION:

Helsinki Exchanges

The principal media

Financial Supervision

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