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By Rovio's Angry Birds are now available on OP-Pohjola cards.
"Our cooperation with Rovio arose from customer demand. A lot of people have been asking us to make these popular birds available on our cards and we are pleased to announce that this is now possible," says Heli Jimenez, Marketing Director at OP-Pohjola.
OP-Pohjola Group is Finland largest issuer of Visa cards, and OP-Pohjola cards currently number in excess of 3 million. Now there famous birds can also be used for buying.
"A banking group with a Finnish set of values is an important partner for us and we welcome Angry Birds cards to the range of other Angry Birds products," says Harri Koponen, Chief Operations Officer of Rovio.
Angry Birds can be chosen as the background image for OP-Visa, OP-Visa Electron and OP-Visa Debit cards as of 9 January 2013 from www.op.fi/angrybirds or OP-Pohjola Group's branch offices.
For more information, please contact:
Marketing Director Heli Jimenez, tel. 010 252 7174.
OP-Pohjola Group is Finland's leading financial services group providing a unique range of banking, investment and insurance services. The Group has the mission of promoting the sustainable prosperity, well-being and security of its owner-members, customers and operating regions through its local presence. Its objective is to offer the best and most versatile package of loyal customer benefits on the market. OP-Pohjola Group consists of approximately 200 member cooperative banks and the Group's central institution, OP-Pohjola Group Central Cooperative, with its subsidiaries and closely-related companies, the largest of which is the listed company Pohjola Bank plc.
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Source: Pohjola Pankki Oyj via Thomson Reuters ONE
