Eltel’s rail and road business buys Celer Oy - a signalling services company in Finland

Eltel is expanding its railway signalling services business further and acquires
Celer Oy, a Finnish signalling services company. Celer is a well recognised
player in the Finnish railway market with an important market position providing
railway signalling services.
Eltel entered the Finnish rail market already in the 1960’s. Since then Eltel
has successfully been able to capitalize on the growing market. To meet the
growing customer demand Eltel has decided to enhance its competences and
resources in the signalling and safety segment also in Finland. The acquisition
of Celer Oy is complementary to Eltel’s current offering in Finland and provides
clear synergies with its existing rail and road business of Eltel. This
acquisition further expands Eltel’s Nordic footprint in the signalling market as
a complement to the acquisition of Vete Signaltjenester AS in Norway made in
October 2015.

Celer Oy is one of the key players in the signalling sector for the railway
market in Finland with a turnover of approximately EUR 6 million covering the
whole Finnish market. Celer has 29 employees with highly specialized signalling
and safety competences. The acquisition of 100% of the company was signed and
closed on 1 April 2016.

The product offering of Celer comprises new installations, corrective and
preventive maintenance, project management, engineering and design services.
Celer’s customers include the owner of the Finnish railway infrastructure -
Liikennevirasto (Finnish Transport Agency) - the Helsinki Metro and various
signalling system suppliers and construction companies. For the coming years,
Liikennevirasto has announced high investment needs and plans in Finland
including major needs for investments in railway signalling systems.

Fredrik Häggström, President - Rail & Road at Eltel AB comments:
“This acquisition of Celer Oy is a great step forward for Eltel and is very much
aligned with our strategic plan to expand in the Finnish market. Our customers
have extensive investment plans and there are increasing needs to ensure
sufficient competences and resources within this sector. Through this
acquisition of Celer Oy, Eltel can scale up its Finnish business and further
develop cross border co-operation between our Eltel entities to be able to meet
the needs of our customers. We welcome all employees of Celer Oy to join Eltel”.

Tero Palosaari, CEO of Celer Oy comments:
“Celer Oy has grown to be the size where we consider being part of a larger
group will further boost the development of our business and our employees.
After careful consideration, we came to the conclusion that Eltel would
perfectly fulfil these expectations and we are very happy to make this
announcement today. I will continue as manager for the signalling services
segment in Eltel’s rail and road business in Finland”.

This information is published by Eltel AB pursuant to the requirements of the
Swedish Securities Market Act (Sw: Lag om värdepappersmarknaden).

For more information, please contact
Ingela Ulfves
VP – IR and Group Communications
Tel: +358 40 311 3009, ingela.ulfves@eltelnetworks.com

Hannu Tynkkynen
Director – Group External Communications and Sustainability
Tel: +358 40 311 4503, hannu.tynkkynen@eltelnetworks.com

About Eltel
Eltel is a leading European provider of technical services for critical
infrastructure networks – Infranets – in the segments of Power, Communication
and Transport & Security, with operations throughout the Nordic and Baltic
regions, Poland, Germany, the United Kingdom and Africa. Eltel provides a broad
and integrated range of services, spanning from maintenance and upgrade services
to project deliveries. Eltel has a diverse contract portfolio and a loyal and
growing customer base of large network owners. In 2015 Eltel net sales amounted
to EUR 1,255 million. The current number of employees is approximately 9,600.
Since February 2015, Eltel AB is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.