Metsä management reshuffle

Ville Jaakonsalo, Managing Director of Metsä Group Financial Services Oy, which is responsible for Metsäliitto Group's financing, will join another company on 1 May 2010. Timo Korvenpää, M.Sc. (Econ.), 57, a member of the Board of Directors of Metsä Finance, will manage the tasks of the managing director until a new managing director has been appointed.

Korvenpää has a long and diverse experience in demanding tasks within financing.