:Ruukki Group Oyj Major shareholder announcements ANNOUNCEMENT PURSUANT T

Ruukki Group Plc, Stock Exchange Release, 10 October 2008 at 1:17 p.m. Ruukki Group Plc hereby gives notice, pursuant to Securities Market Act chapter 2, section 10 regarding a change in shareholding, about the following potential changes in shareholding that are based on the proposals by the Board of Directors announced to the stock market on 10 October 2008. The Board of Directors has proposed to the Extraordinary General Meeting to be convened on 28 October 2008 that as part of the proposed acquisition Ruukki Group Plc would issue altogether 73,170,731 option rights. If the Extraordinary General Meeting of Ruukki Group Plc will decide to issue those option rights, and moreover, if all these options would be exercised with new shares being issued by the Company, that would potentially lead to a situation where the... [read full story]