2015-02-23 Decisions taken by KONE Corporation's Annual General Meeting and Board of Directors (2)

KONE Corporation, stock exchange release, February 23, 2015 at 1.30 p.m. EET

Decisions taken by KONE Corporation's Annual General Meeting and Board of Directors

Matters relating to the Annual General Meeting

KONE Corporation's Annual General Meeting was held in Helsinki on February 23, 2015. The meeting approved the financial statements and discharged the responsible parties from liability for the financial period January 1-December 31, 2014.

The General Meeting approved dividends of EUR 1.1975 for each of the 76,208,712 class A shares and EUR 1.20 for each of the outstanding 437,517,818 class B shares. The date of record for dividend distribution is February 25, 2015 and dividends will be payable on March 4, 2015.

The number of Members of the Board of Directors was confirmed as nine. Re-elected as Members of the Board were Matti Alahuhta, Anne Brunila, Antti Herlin, Jussi Herlin, Ravi Kant, Juhani Kaskeala and Sirpa Pietikäinen. Iiris Herlin and Kazunori Matsubara were elected as new Members of the Board.

The General Meeting confirmed an annual compensation of EUR 54,000 for the Chairman of the Board, EUR 44,000 for the Vice Chairman and EUR 33,000 for Board Members. In addition, a compensation of EUR 500 was approved for attendance at Board and Committee meetings but anyhow EUR 2,000 fee per those Committee meetings for the members residing outside of Finland. Of the annual remuneration, 40 percent will be paid in class B shares of KONE Corporation and the rest in cash.

Authorized public accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy and Niina Vilske were nominated as auditors.

Authorization to repurchase own shares and to decide on the issuance of shares as well as the issuance of options and other special rights entitling to shares

The General Meeting approved the authorization for the Board of Directors to repurchase KONE's own shares. Altogether no more than 52,440,000 shares may be repurchased, of which no more than 7,620,000 may be class A shares and 44,820,000 class B shares. The authorization shall remain in effect for a period of one year from the date of decision of the General Meeting.

Further, the General Meeting authorized the Board of Directors to decide on the issuance of shares as well as the issuance of options and other special rights entitling to shares referred to in chapter 10 section 1 of the Finnish Companies Act. The amount of shares to be issued based on this authorization shall not exceed 7,620,000 class A shares and 44,820,000 class B shares. The Board of Directors decides on all the conditions of the issuance of shares and of special rights entitling to shares. The authorization concerns both the issuance of new shares as well as the transfer of treasury shares. The issuance of shares and of special rights entitling to shares may be carried out in deviation from the shareholders' pre-emptive rights (directed issue). The authorization shall remain in effect for a period of five years following the date of decision of the General Meeting.

Decisions by the Board of Directors

At its meeting held after the General Meeting, the Board of Directors elected from among its members Antti Herlin as its Chairman and Jussi Herlin as Vice Chairman.

Jussi Herlin was elected as Chairman and Anne Brunila, Antti Herlin and Ravi Kant as members of the Audit Committee. Anne Brunila and Ravi Kant are independent of both the company and of significant shareholders and Jussi Herlin is independent of the company.

Antti Herlin was elected as Chairman and Matti Alahuhta, Jussi Herlin and Juhani Kaskeala as members of the Nomination and Compensation Committee. Juhani Kaskeala is independent of both the company and of significant shareholders and Matti Alahuhta is independent of significant shareholders.

For further information, please contact:

Jukka Ala-Mello, Secretary to the Board, tel. +358 (0)204 75 4226

Sender:

KONE Corporation

Jukka Ala-Mello

Secretary to the Board

Eriikka Söderström

CFO

About KONE

KONE is one of the global leaders in the elevator and escalator industry. KONE's objective is to offer the best People Flow® experience by developing and delivering solutions that enable people to move smoothly, safely, comfortably and without waiting in buildings in an increasingly urbanizing environment. KONE provides industry-leading elevators, escalators, automatic building doors and integrated solutions to enhance the People Flow in and between buildings. KONE's services cover the entire lifetime of a building, from the design phase to maintenance, repairs and modernization solutions. In 2014, KONE had annual net sales of EUR 7.3 billion, and at the end of the year over 47,000 employees. KONE class B shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.