The board of Tikkurila Oyj approved a dividend to the Annual General Meeting of EUR 0.80 per share for the year ended on December 31, 2017 against EUR 0.80 per share a year ago, which corresponds to about 331% of the group's 2017. The rest will be retained and carried further in the company's
unrestricted equity. The dividend will be paid in two tranches. The first tranche of EUR 0.40 per share will be paid to a shareholder who is registered in the company's shareholder register maintained by Euroclear Finland Ltd. on the dividend record date, April 16, 2018. The dividend will be paid on April 23, 2018. The second tranche EUR 0.40 per share will be paid in November 2018. The second tranche will be paid to a shareholder who is recorded at the record date for the payment of dividend at the company's shareholder register maintained by Euroclear Finland Oy. The board of directors will decide at the meeting scheduled for October 25, 2018 the record date and the payment date for the second tranche. According to the current rules of the Finnish book-entry system the record date would then be October 29, 2018 and the dividend payment date earliest November 5, 2018.

The company annual general meeting held on April 12, 2018, elected Catherine Sahlgren and Heikki Westerlund as new members of the board
of directors until the end of the next annual general meeting.