Annual General Meeting

Annual General Meeting 2026

Stora Enso Oyj’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held on 24 March 2026 in Helsinki, Finland. The AGM adopted the accounts and the Remuneration Report for 2025 and granted the Company’s Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer discharge from liability for the financial period 1 January 2025–31 December 2025.

Resolution on the use of the profit shown on the balance sheet and the distribution of dividend

The AGM resolved, in accordance with the proposal by the Board of Directors, that the Company shall distribute a dividend of EUR 0.25 per share for the year 2025 in two instalments as follows:
The first dividend instalment, EUR 0.13 per share, shall be paid to shareholders who on the record date of the first dividend payment, 26 March 2026, are registered in the shareholders’ register maintained by Euroclear Finland Oy or in the separate register of shareholders maintained by Euroclear Sweden AB for Euroclear Sweden registered shares. The first dividend instalment shall be paid on or about 8 April 2026.

The second dividend instalment, EUR 0.12 per share, shall be paid to shareholders who on the record date of the second dividend payment, 25 September 2026, are registered in the shareholders’ register maintained by Euroclear Finland Oy or in the separate register of shareholders maintained by Euroclear Sweden AB for Euroclear Sweden registered shares. The second dividend instalment shall be paid on or about 2 October 2026.

Composition of the Board of Directors

The AGM resolved, in accordance with the proposal by the Shareholders’ Nomination Board, that the Board of Directors shall have eight (8) members.
The AGM further resolved, in accordance with the proposal by the Shareholders’ Nomination Board, to re-elect the current members of the board of Directors – Håkan Buskhe, Helena Hedblom, Astrid Hermann, Christiane Kuehne, Richard Nilsson, Elena Scaltritti, and Antti Vasara– as members of the Board of Directors until the end of the following AGM and to elect Jouko Karvinen as a new member of the Board of Directors for the same term of office.
In accordance with the proposal by the Shareholders’ Nomination Board, the AGM resolved to elect Håkan Buskhe as Chair of the Board of Directors and Jouko Karvinen as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors.

Read more in the AGM resolutions release.