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Summons to Annual General Meeting of Lemminkäinen Corporation

LEMMINKÄINEN CORPORATION CORPORATE RELEASE FEBRUARY 14, 2008 at 09.00 SUMMONS TO ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF LEMMINKÄINEN CORPORATION The shareholders of Lemminkäinen Corporation are summoned to attend the Annual General Meeting, which will be held at 3.00 p.m. on Friday, 14 March 2008 at Hote

LEMMINKÄINEN CORPORATION                                                        
CORPORATE RELEASE                                                               
FEBRUARY 14, 2008 at 09.00                                                      

SUMMONS TO ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF LEMMINKÄINEN CORPORATION                   

The shareholders of Lemminkäinen Corporation are summoned to attend the Annual  
General Meeting, which will be held at 3.00 p.m. on Friday, 14 March 2008 at    
Hotel Palace, 10th floor, Eteläranta 10, 00130 Helsinki.                        

Items on the agenda                                                             

The Annual General Meeting will deal with those items specified in §11 of the   
Articles of Association and in Chapter 5, Section 3 of the Companies Act, and   
also the Board of Director's proposal for amendments to the Articles of         
Association of Lemminkäinen Corporation.                                        

Composition of the Board of Directors, remuneration and the Auditor             
                                                                                
The Board of Director's Nominating Committee proposes to the Annual General     
Meeting that                                                                    
- the number of Board members be confirmed as six, 
- the present members of the Board of Directors, i.e. Messrs. Berndt Brunow, 
Heikki Pentti, Teppo Taberman, Sakari Tamminen, and Ms. Kristina Pentti, be     
re-elected for the next term of office,                                         
- Mr. Juhani Mäkinen, Counsellor of Law, attorney,  be elected to serve as a
new member of the Board of Directors, and 
- a remuneration of EUR 3,000 per month be paid to the members of the Board of 
Directors and EUR 11,000 per month be paid to the Chairman of the Board.        

Counsellor of Law Juhani Mäkinen (51) is chairman of the Board of Directors and 
partner of Hannes Snellman Attorneys at Law Ltd. He is Board Member in e.g. the 
following companies:                                                            
- Componenta Corporation, deputy chairman 
- Myllykoski Corporation, deputy chairman 
- Oy Karl Fazer Ab, member. 

On the recommendation of the Audit Committee, the Board of Directors proposes to
the Annual General Meeting that Authorised Public Accountants Firm              
PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy be elected Auditor, and that the Auditor's fees be    
paid according to invoice.                                                      

Amendments to the Articles of Association                                       

The Board of Directors proposes to the Annual General Meeting that, due mainly  
to the regulations of the Companies Act that came into force on 1 September 2006
and the restructuring of Lemminkäinen Group, the current Articles of Association
be amended as follows (the current article to which the proposed amendment      
applies is given in parentheses):                                               

- reword the regulation concerning the Company's business name and domicile (1
§) 
- amend the Company's field of activity so that the Company engages in its 
business either itself or through its subsidiaries (2 §)                        
- remove the regulations concerning the Company's minimum and maximum share 
capital (3 §)                                                                   
- remove the regulations concerning the nominal share value and the record date 
procedure (4 §)                                                                 
- amend the regulation concerning the Company's Board of Directors (5 §) 
- amend the terminology concerning the Company's representation and combine 7 § 
and 8 §                                                                         
- amend the regulation concerning the financial year (10 §) 
- amend the agenda of the Annual General Meeting to conform with the new
Companies Act (11 §) 
- amend the terminology concerning publication of the summons to attend a
General Meeting (12 §) 
- amend the regulation concerning registration of participation in a General 
Meeting so that the deadline for notification is not earlier than ten days prior
to the date of the meeting (13 §)                                               
- remove 14 § of the Articles of Association 
- amend the order of the articles and renumber them so that there are eleven in 
total.                                                                          

Right to participate in the meeting                                             

Shareholders registered as shareholders on 4 March 2008 in the Company's        
shareholders' register kept by the Finnish Central Securities Depository Ltd    
shall be entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting.                         

Registration                                                                    

Shareholders wishing to attend the Annual General Meeting must notify the       
Company by 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 11 March 2008 at the latest. Notice of intention  
to attend the meeting may be given by telephoning Maritta Laitinen (+358 2071   
53303). Written notices may be mailed to Lemminkäinen Corporation, Maritta      
Laitinen, P.O. Box 23, 00241 Helsinki, or sent by fax (+358 2071 53510), or     
e-mailed to maritta.laitinen@lemminkainen.fi.                                   

Notices of intention to attend the Annual General Meeting must arrive before the
deadline stated above. Any instrument of proxy must also be submitted to the    
Company by the same deadline.                                                   

Inspection of documents                                                         

The financial statements and related documents as well as the Board of          
Directors' proposals will be available for inspection one week prior to the     
Annual General Meeting both at the Company's head office at Esterinportti 2,    
00240 Helsinki and on the Company's website at www.lemminkainen.com. Copies of  
the documents will be sent to shareholders upon request.                        

Proposal for distribution of profits                                            

The distributable funds of Lemminkäinen Group and the parent company,           
Lemminkäinen Corporation, at 31 December 2007 were EUR 238,399,846.06 and EUR   
31,378,058.07, respectively.                                                    

The Board of Directors proposes to the Annual General Meeting that a dividend of
EUR 1.80 per share, i.e. a total of EUR 30,638,250, be paid for the accounting  
period ending on 31 December 2007. The dividend will be paid to shareholders    
recorded in the Company's shareholders' register kept by the Finnish Central    
Securities Depository Ltd on the record date, which is 19 March 2008. The       
dividend payment date will be 28 March 2008.                                    


Helsinki, 13 February 2008                                                      

LEMMINKÄINEN CORPORATION                                                        
Board of Directors