Shareholders´ proposal to the Annual General Meeting for the Kesko Board´s composition and remuneration - Seite 2

Pokela Oy Iso Omena. Pokela Oy Iso Omena, the company controlled by Pokela, has
a chain agreement with Kesko Food Ltd. At 31 January 2012, Pokela Oy Iso Omena
held a total of 109,400 Kesko Corporation A shares. By education, Pokela is a
secondary school graduate.

New Board member candidate Virpi Tuunainen, b. 1967, acts as the Professor of
Information Systems Science (information and service management) at Aalto
University School of Economics and Director of Aalto Service Factory.
Tuunainen´s positions of trust include Board member of KP-Media Oy, Advisory
Board member of SFR-Scandinavian Financial Research Ltd, Academic Advisory Board
member of Cambridge Service Alliance and Chair of Real-Time Economy Competence
Center at Aalto University. Since 1995, she has held various positions, which
include Visiting Researcher, Visiting Professor and Professor at Finnish and
foreign universities and higher education institutions. At 31 January 2012,
Tuunainen held no Kesko Corporation shares. By education, Tuunainen is a Doctor
of Science in Economics.

All of the proposed candidates have given their consent to the election. The
biographical details of all candidates proposed for Board members are available
on the company´s website at www.kesko.fi/Investors.

Proposal for the remuneration of Board members and the reimbursement of their
expenses

In addition, the said shareholders propose that the remuneration of the Board
members and the Board Committees´ members, and the reimbursement of their
expenses remain unchanged as follows:

- the Board Chair, an annual remuneration of EUR80,000,
- the Board Deputy Chair, an annual remuneration of EUR50,000,
- a Board member, an annual remuneration of EUR37,000,
- a meeting fee of EUR500/meeting for a Board meeting and its Committee´s meeting,
and a meeting fee of EUR1,000/meeting to a Committee Chair who is not the Chair or
the Deputy Chair of the Board,
- daily allowances and compensation for travelling expenses are paid to the
Board members in accordance with the general travel rules of Kesko.

The above proposals will be included in the notice of the General Meeting which
will be published separately.

Further information is available from Vice President, General Counsel Anne
Leppälä-Nilsson, tel. [phone].

Kesko Corporation

Merja Haverinen
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications and Responsibility

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