TIKA OY 
By Tikkurila Oyj
Stock Exchange Release
January 25, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. (CET+1)
The Nomination Board of Tikkurila proposes to the Annual General Meeting, which is planned to be held on March 28, 2012, that all present members of the Board of Directors Jari Paasikivi, Petteri Walldén, Eeva Ahdekivi, Pia Rudengren and Riitta Mynttinen would be re-elected and that Aleksey Vlasov and Harri Kerminen would be elected as new members.
Aleksey Vlasov, Medical Doctor, born in 1957, is the first Vice President of Geotech Holding, which is a Russian oilfield service company. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Nokian Tyres plc. He is a Russian citizen and resides in Russia.
Harri Kerminen, M.Sc. (Eng.), MBA, born in 1951, is the President and CEO of Kemira Oyj. He is to retire as of April 1, 2012. He serves currently, among others, on the Boards of Finnair Oyj and the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK, and as the Chairman of the Board of Chemical Industry Federation of Finland. He is a Finnish citizen and resides in Finland.
Furthermore, the Nomination Board proposes to the Annual General Meeting that the annual remuneration of the members of the Board of Directors will stay at the current level.
The members of the Tikkurila Nomination Board are Pekka Paasikivi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Oras Invest Oy; Timo Ritakallio, Deputy CEO of Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company; and Risto Murto, Executive Vice President of Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company. The fourth member of the Nomination Board is Jari Paasikivi, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tikkurila Oyj, who acts as an expert member. The Annual General Meeting of Tikkurila on March 31, 2011, decided to establish a Nomination Board consisting of shareholders or representatives of shareholders to prepare and present a proposal for the next Annual General Meeting concerning the composition and remuneration of the Board of Directors.
Tikkurila Oyj
Erkki Järvinen, President and CEO
For further information, please contact:
Pekka Paasikivi, Chairman of the Tikkurila Nomination Board, mobile +358 50 501 0666
Antti Kiuru, Tikkurila Oyj, Group Vice President, Legal, mobile +358 400 686 488, antti.kiuru@tikkurila.com:
mailto:antti.kiuru@tikkurila.com
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Source: Tikkurila Oyj via Thomson Reuters ONE
