ILKKA BROTHERUS TO CONTINUE AS CHAIRMAN OF YIT?S BOARD OF

ILKKA BROTHERUS TO CONTINUE AS CHAIRMAN OF YIT’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS

At its organizational meeting on March 30, 2005, YIT Corporation's Board of Directors re-elected Ilkka Brotherus, M.Sc. (Econ.), managing director of Sinituote Oy, as its chairman. Ilkka Brotherus was a member of YIT’s Supervisory Board from 1998 to 2000 and has been a Board member since 2000 and the chairman of the Board since 2002. Eino Halonen, M.Sc. (Econ.), managing director of Suomi Mutual Life Assurance Company, was elected as vice chairman. Halonen has been a member of YIT’s Board of Directors since 2000 and the vice chairman of the Board since 2003.

The Board of Directors also includes Reino Hanhinen, Group CEO of YIT Corporation, Antti Herlin, chairman of Kone Corporation’s Board of Directors and Teuvo Salminen, deputy CEO of Jaakko Pöyry Group Oyj.

Ilkka Brotherus, Eino Halonen and Teuvo Salminen were elected as members of the Audit Committee. It is the task of the Audit Committee to assist the Board of Directors in the supervision of the YIT Group’s reporting and accounting processes.

For additional information, contact: Group CEO Reino Hanhinen, tel. +358 20 433 2454, reino.hanhinen@yit.fi

YIT CORPORATION



Veikko Myllyperkiö Vice President, Corporate Communications

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