Decisions taken by KONE Corporation’s Annual General Meeting and Board of Directors

Matters relating to the Annual General Meeting

KONE Corporation’s Annual General Meeting was held in Helsinki on February 28, 2011. The meeting approved the financial statements and discharged the responsible parties from liability for the financial period January 1–December 31, 2010.

The General Meeting approved dividends of EUR 0.895 for each of the 38,104,356 class A shares and EUR 0.90 for the 217,283,894 outstanding class B shares. The date of record for dividend distribution is March 3, 2011, and dividends will be payable on March 10, 2011.

The number of Members of the Board of Directors was confirmed as eight and it was decided to elect one deputy Member. Re-elected as Members of the Board were Matti Alahuhta, Anne Brunila, Reino Hanhinen, Antti Herlin, Sirkka Hämäläinen-Lindfors, Juhani Kaskeala, Shunichi Kimura and Sirpa Pietikäinen and as deputy Member Jussi Herlin.

The General Meeting confirmed an annual compensation of EUR 54,000 for the Chairman of the Board, EUR 44,000 for the Vice Chairman, EUR 33,000 for Board Members and EUR 16,500 for the deputy Member. In addition, a compensation of EUR 500 was approved for attendance at Board and Committee meetings.

Authorized public accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy and Heikki Lassila were nominated as auditors.

Authorization to repurchase own shares

The General Meeting approved the authorization for the Board of Directors to repurchase KONE’s own shares. Altogether no more than 25,570,000 shares may be repurchased, of which no more than 3,810,000 may be class A shares and 21,760,000 class B shares. The authorization shall remain in effect for a period of one year from the date of decision of the General Meeting.

Decisions by the Board of Directors

At its meeting held after the General Meeting, the Board of Directors elected from among its members Antti Herlin as its Chair and Sirkka Hämäläinen-Lindfors as Vice Chair.

Antti Herlin was elected as Chairman of the Audit Committee. Sirkka Hämäläinen-Lindfors and Anne Brunila were elected as independent Members of the Audit Committee.

Antti Herlin was elected as Chairman of the Nomination and Compensation Committee. Reino Hanhinen and Juhani Kaskeala were elected as independent Members of the Nomination and Compensation Committee.

About KONE

KONE is one of the global leaders in the elevator and escalator industry. The company has been committed to understanding the needs of its customers for the past century, providing industry-leading elevators, escalators and automatic building doors as well as innovative solutions for modernization and maintenance. The company’s objective is to offer the best people flow experience by developing and delivering solutions that enable people to move smoothly, safely, comfortably and without waiting in buildings in an increasingly urbanizing environment. In 2010, KONE had annual net sales of EUR 5 billion and approximately 33,800 employees. KONE class B shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd in Finland.

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