OREANDA-NEWS. A total of 6,186 of Konecranes Plc's shares were subscribed for under the company's stock options as follows:

Stock option: 2009B

Shares: 6,186

Subscription price, EUR/share: 19.69

The full subscription price of EUR 121,802.34 will be entered in the paid-in capital.

In accordance with Konecranes Plc's Board of Directors' resolution, treasury shares will be used for the share subscriptions. The subscribed shares will be delivered to the subscribers on January 29, 2015 on the basis of which the right to dividend and other shareholder rights shall commence. After the subscription and delivery of the shares, Konecranes Plc holds 5,322,229 treasury shares.

Stock options issued under Konecranes Plc's ongoing stock option plans entitle their holders to subscribe for a total of 1,365,858 shares.

Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™, serving a broad range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards, ports and terminals. Konecranes provides productivity-enhancing lifting solutions as well as services for lifting equipment and machine tools of all makes. In 2013, Group sales totaled EUR 2,100 million. The Group has 12,000 employees at 600 locations in 48 countries. Konecranes is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).