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Stay on Corporate siteKONE Corporation's Annual General Meeting held on February 26, 2018 authorized the Board of Directors to repurchase the company's own shares. The authorization shall remain in effect for a period of one year from the date of decision of the General Meeting.
The shares may be repurchased among others in order to develop the capital structure of the Company, finance or carry out possible acquisitions, implement the Company's share-based incentive plans, or to be transferred for other purposes or to be cancelled.
Altogether no more than 52,440,000 shares may be repurchased, of which no more than 7,620,000 are to be class A shares and 44,820,000 class B shares, taking into consideration the provisions of the Companies Act regarding the maximum amount of own shares that the Company is allowed to possess. KONE Corporation currently has 12,026,886 class B shares in its possession.
The minimum and maximum consideration for the shares to be purchased is determined for both class A and class B shares on the basis of the trading price for class B shares determined on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. on the time of purchase.