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HKScan issues EUR 135 million bond

HKScan Corporation, Stock Exchange Release, 14 September 2017 at 16.55 Finnish time (EEST)

HKScan Corporation issues a senior unsecured bond of EUR 135 million. The bond matures on 21 September 2022, it carries a fixed annual interest at the rate of 2.625 percent and has an issue price of 100.000 percent.

The Company will make application for the listing of the bond on the official list of Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. The proceeds from the bond offering will be partially used for the partial repurchase of HKScan Corporation’s existing EUR 100,000,000 3.625 percent fixed-rate notes due 21 November 2019, and the remaining proceeds may be used for general corporate purposes.

Nordea Bank AB (publ) and OP Corporate Bank plc act as Joint Lead Managers for the issue of the bond.

HKScan Corporation

Jari Latvanen

President and CEO

Further information: HKScan Corporation's CFO Tuomo Valkonen or VP Group Treasury & IR Keijo Keränen. Kindly submit a call-back request to Marja-Leena Dahlskog, VP Communications, tel. +358 10 570 2142.

HKScan is the leading Nordic food company. We sell, market and produce high-quality, responsibly-produced pork, beef, poultry and lamb products, processed meats and convenience foods under strong brand names. Our customers are the retail, food service, industrial and export sectors, and our home markets comprise Finland, Sweden, Denmark and the Baltics. We export to close to 50 countries. In 2016, HKScan had net sales of nearly EUR 1.9 billion and some 7 300 employees.

 

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