Orion Corporation (business code 1999212-6) has received a disclosure under Chapter 2, Section 9 of the Securities Markets Act, according to which the total number of Orion B shares and related voting rights under management of The Capital Group Companies, Inc., exceeded on 3 September 2012 the one twentieth (1/20) threshold of the total number of Orion Corporation shares.
Previously, Capital Research and Management Company (CRMC) and Capital Group International, Inc. (CGII), subsidiaries of The Capital Group Companies, Inc., have reported their holdings separately based on an exemption granted by the Finnish Financial Supervision Authority on 12 September 2007 (J No 13/230/2007). As a result of the corporate re-organization effective 1 September 2012, the exemption no longer applies to CRMC and CGII. Consequently, The Capital Group Companies, Inc. now reports its holdings in aggregate.
The holdings managed by The Capital Group Companies, Inc., according to the disclosure:
| Share type | Number of shares | Percent (%) of total shares | Percent (%) voting rights |
| A share | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| B share ISIN:FI0009014377 | 8,313,900 | 5.8856 | 0.8427 |
| Total | 8,313,900 | 5.8856 | 0.8427 |
The taxpayer I.D. advised by The Capital Group Companies, Inc: 86-0206507.
Additional information about the company: www.capgroup.com.
Orion Corporation's share capital comprises 141,257,828 shares, of which 44,493,218 are A shares and 96,764,610 are B shares. Each A share entitles its holder to twenty (20) votes and each B share to one (1) vote. Thus, the total number of votes is 986,628,970.
Orion Corporation
| Timo Lappalainen President and CEO | Olli Huotari SVP, Corporate Functions |
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Olli Huotari, SVP, Corporate Functions, phone +358 50 966 3054
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