Notification of a change in shareholding according to Securities Markets Act 2:9
Tekla Corporation Stock exchange release July 7, 2011 at 11:00 a.m.
Notification of a change in shareholding according to Securities Markets Act 2:9
According to the Securities Markets Act, Tekla Corporation has received the following notification:
The extended offer period in the public tender offer by Trimble Finland Oy, a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Trimble Navigation Limited, for all of the issued and outstanding shares in Tekla Corporation that are not owned by Tekla, expired on June 27, 2011. The trades to complete the tender offer were executed on July 5, 2011.
As a result of the completion of the tender offer, Trimble Finland Oy's ownership in Tekla exceeds 2/3 of the shares and voting rights in Tekla. The number of shares owned by Trimble Finland Oy is 22,368,148, which is about 99.46% of shares and votes included in the tender offer, and 99.03% including own shares held by Tekla.
The stock of Tekla Corporation comprises a total of 22,586,200 shares.
Tekla Corporation
Timo Keinänen, CFO
phone 358 400 813 027,
firstname.lastname@tekla.com
Distribution: NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd, main media
Tekla Corporation
Tekla Corporation drives the evolution of digital information models with its software, providing a growing competitive advantage to customers in the construction, infrastructure and energy industries. Tekla's net sales for 2010 were nearly 58 million euros and operating result nearly 10 million euros. International operations accounted for approximately 80% of net sales. Tekla has customers in almost 100 countries, offices in 15 countries and a worldwide partner network. Tekla Group currently employs approximately 500 persons, of whom about 200 work outside of the headquarters in Finland. Tekla was established in 1966, and is one of the longest-operating Finnish software companies. www.tekla.com
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