Metsä Board Corporation at its Annual General Meeting held on March 23, 2017, approved to distribute a dividend of EUR 0.19 per share. The dividend shall be paid to shareholders who on the record date for the dividend payment, March 27, 2017, are recorded in the company's shareholders' register held by Euroclear Finland Ltd. The dividend shall be paid on April 3, 2017.

The Board further resolved to organise the Board committees as follows: the members of the Audit Committee are Kirsi Komi, Kai Korhonen, Veli Sundbäck and Erkki Varis and the members of the Nomination and Compensation Committee are Martti Asunta, Kari Jordan, Liisa Leino, Jussi LInnaranta and Juha Niemelä.