Sanoma Oyj announced that the Annual General Meeting held on 25 March 2020 approved that a dividend of EUR 0.50 per share shall be paid for the year 2019 and a sum of EUR 350,000 shall be transferred to the donation reserve and used at the Board of Directors' discretion. The dividend shall be paid in two instalments. The first instalment of EUR 0.25 per share shall be paid to a shareholder who is registered in the shareholder register of the Company maintained by Euroclear Finland Ltd. on the dividend record date 27 March 2020. The payment date proposed by the Board of Directors for this instalment is 3 April 2020. The second instalment of EUR 0.25 per share shall be paid in November 2020. The second instalment shall be paid to a shareholder who is registered in the shareholder register of the Company maintained by Euroclear Finland Ltd. on the dividend record date, which, together with the dividend payment date, shall be decided by the Board of Directors in its meeting scheduled for 28 October 2020. The dividend record date would then be on or about 30 October 2020 and the dividend payment date on or about 6 November 2020.

The company also announced appointment of Julian Drinkall and Rolf Grisebach were elected as new members of the Board of C. Pekka Ala-Pietilä was elected as the Chairman of the Board and Antti Herlin as the Vice Chairman. The term of all Board members ends at the end of the AGM 2021.