The Board of Directors of Kone Oyj proposes to the Annual General Meeting to be held on February 25, 2013 that a dividend of EUR 1.745 be paid on the outstanding 38,104,356 class A shares and EUR 1.75 on the outstanding 218,271,425 class B shares, resulting in a total amount of pro-posed dividends of EUR 448,467,094.97. The Board proposes that the dividends be payable from March 7, 2013.