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 23, 2009. The meeting approved the financial statements and discharged the responsible parties from liability for the financial period January 1–December 31, 2008.

The Annual General Meeting approved dividends of EUR 0.645 for each of the 38,104,356 class A shares and EUR 0.65 for the 214,643,060 outstanding class B shares. The date of record for dividend distribution is February 26, 2009, and dividends will be payable on March 5, 2009.

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, Reino Hanhinen, Antti Herlin, Sirkka Hämäläinen-Lindfors and Sirpa Pietikäinen and as deputy Member Jussi Herlin. As new Members of the Board of Directors were elected Anne Brunila, Juhani Kaskeala and Shunichi Kimura.

The Annual General Meeting confirmed an annual compensation of EUR 54,000 for the Chairman of the Board, EUR 42,000 for the Vice Chairman, EUR 30,000 for Board Members and EUR 15,000 for the deputy Member. In addition, a compensation of EUR 500 was approved for attendance at Board and Committee meetings.

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

Authorization to acquire and distribute own shares

The Board of Directors’ proposal that the Annual General Meeting authorize the Board of Directors to repurchase KONE’s own shares was approved. 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.

Further, the Board of Directors’ proposal that the Annual General Meeting authorize the Board of Directors to decide on the distribution of any shares repurchased by the company was approved. The authorization is limited to a maximum of 3,810,000 class A shares and 21,760,000 class B shares. The Board shall have the right to decide to whom to issue the shares, i.e. to issue shares in deviation of the pre-emptive rights of shareholders. These authorizations shall remain in effect for a period of one year from the date of decision of the Annual General Meeting.

Decisions by the Board of Directors

At its meeting held after the Annual 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.

The Board of Directors stated also at its meeting that from the new Members of the Board Anne Brunila and Juhani Kaskeala are independent of both the Company and of significant shareholders. Shunichi Kimura was evaluated to be independent of significant shareholders.

About KONE

KONE’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. KONE provides its customers with industry-leading elevators, escalators and innovative solutions for modernization and maintenance, and is one of the global leaders in its industry. In 2008, KONE had annual net sales of EUR 4.6 billion and over 34,800 employees. KONE class B shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd in Finland.

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Jukka Ala-Mello, Secretary to the Board, tel. +358 (0)204 75 4226

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Jukka Ala-Mello
Secretary to the Board

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