Metso's Annual General Meeting decided on March 29, 2012 to establish a Nomination Board to prepare proposals on members of the Board of Directors and their remuneration for the next Annual General Meeting which is planned to be held on March 28, 2013. The representatives of the four largest shareholders registered in Metso’s shareholder register as of October 1, 2012 are elected to the Nomination Board along with the Chairman of the Board of Directors Jukka Viinanen as an expert member.
According to the shareholders register, Metso Corporation's four largest shareholders on October 1, 2012 were:
- Solidium Oy (16,695,287 shares and votes or 11.10% of share capital and votes),
- Cevian Capital II Master Fund L.P. (10,193,060 shares and votes or 6,78% of share capital and votes),
- Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company (6,036,943 shares and votes or 4,02% of share capital and votes),
- Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company (3,908,465 shares and votes or 2,60% of share capital and votes).
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