Varma increased holding in Wärtsilä Corporation



Wärtsilä Corporation Changes in company's own shares 4.7.2007 at 9.50
a.m. local time

Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company has today informed Wärtsilä
Corporation that it has purchased Wärtsilä shares on the 3 July 2007
and now owns over a twentieth (1/20) of the company's number of
votes. Following the transaction Varma owns 2,795,615 A shares and
1,188,691 B shares giving a total holding of 3,984,306 Wärtsilä
shares or 4.16% of Wärtsilä's share capital and 9.46% of the total
votes.

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