THE STOCKMANN GROUP’S SALES IN AUGUST 2005

STOCKMANN plc STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE September 9, 2005, at 12.00

THE STOCKMANN GROUP’S SALES IN AUGUST 2005

The Stockmann Group’s sales in August were EUR 143.6 million, up 9.4 per
cent.

The strongest sales growth was reported by the Department Store Division
whose sales were up 16 per cent on the previous year. Sales grew by 12 per
cent in Finland and by 34 per cent abroad. The strong increase in sales
outside Finland was due to the new department store that was opened in
Moscow in December 2004 as well as the growth of the network of Zara
stores in Russia and the strong like-for-like sales in the Baltic market.

Seppälä’s sales grew by 5 per cent. Sales were up 1 per cent in Finland
and 38 per cent abroad. The strong growth in sales outside Finland was due
to the good like-for-like sales growth and in part to new stores.

Stockmann Auto’s sales grew by 1 per cent.

Hobby Hall’s sales grew slightly. In Finland Hobby Hall’s sales were on a
par with the previous year while the sales in the Baltic countries grew by
3 per cent due to the favourable sales trend in Estonia.

Sales figures in August and in January-August

August January-August January-
December
change change
2005 2004 perc. 2005 2004 perc. 2004
Me Me 05/04 Me Me 05/04 Me

Department Store 61.5 55.0 11.7 467.4 442.7 5.6 746.1
Division, Finland
Department Store 19.6 14.7 33.8 154.7 108.3 42.8 192.7
Division,
international
operations
Department Store 81.1 69.7 16.4 622.0 551.0 12.9 938.8
Division, total
Stockmann Auto* 32.8 32.5 0.8 282.6 309.5 -8.7 437.1
Hobby Hall, Finland 14.1 14.2 -0.3 105.4 107.3 -1.7 180.4
Hobby Hall, 2.5 2.4 3.3 21.6 20.9 3.3 34.0
international
operations
Hobby Hall, total 16.6 16.6 0.2 127.1 128.2 -0.9 214.4
Seppälä, Finland 10.8 10.7 0.6 84.7 79.9 6.0 128.3
Seppälä, 2.2 1.6 38.0 13.5 9.2 47.0 15.4
international
operations
Seppälä, total 13.0 12.3 5.4 98.2 89.1 10.2 143.7
Real estate + 0.1 0.1 0.6 0.6 0.9
others
Operations in 119.3 112.5 6.0 940.7 940.1 0.1 1 492.8
Finland, total
International 24.3 18.7 30.1 189.8 138.4 37.1 242.1
operations, total
Stockmann total* 143.6 131.2 9.4 1 130.5 1 078.5 4.8 1 735.0

* With the elimination of the sales by the unit transferred to Kesko on
July 1, 2004, from Stockmann Auto’s comparison figure for 2004, the
division’s sales in January-August were up 9 per cent and the consolidated
sales were up 10 per cent.

STOCKMANN plc

Hannu Penttilä
CEO

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