PÖYRY RESOLVED ON DIRECTED SHARE ISSUE



PÖYRY PLC          Company Announcement 10 March 2009 at 4.00 p.m.

PÖYRY RESOLVED ON DIRECTED SHARE ISSUE

The Board of Directors of Pöyry PLC has resolved on a directed share
issue on the basis of the authorisation granted to the Board of
Directors by the Annual General Meeting on 10 March 2008. The
directed share issue is part of the share based incentive plan
2008-2010 for key personnel of the company. More detailed information
about the incentive plan has been released in the company
announcement on 11 December 2007.

The directed share issue will be executed by conveying without
consideration a total of 216 727 of the company's own shares held by
the company to the target group of the incentive plan's earning
period 2008 in accordance with the terms and conditions of the
incentive plan. The directed share issue does not affect the
company's share capital or the total number of shares of the company.

Under the authorisation granted by the Annual General Meeting on 10
March 2008, a maximum of 5 800 000 of the company's own shares held
by the company may be conveyed. After the present directed share
issue the maximum number of shares that may be conveyed is 5 573 273
shares.

PÖYRY PLC

Heikki Malinen
President and CEO

Teuvo Salminen
Deputy to President and CEO

Additional information by:
Camilla Grönholm, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Pöyry
PLC
tel. +358 10 33 22153

www.poyry.com

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