SAMPO PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 2 August 2011 at 2:00 pm Sampo's interim report will be published on 10 August 2011 Sampo Group will publish Interim Report for January-June 2011 on 10 August between 9:30 am and 10:00 am. The Interim Report and Supplementary financial information will be available on the Internet at www.sampo.com/result. Sampo will arrange a Finnish-language press conference on 10 August at 12:30 pm at Savoy (Eteläesplanadi 14, 7th floor, Helsinki). An English-language telephone conference for investors and analysts will be held at 4:00 pm Finnish time (2:00 pm UK time). Group CEO and President Kari Stadigh, Group CFO Peter Johansson, Head of P&C Insurance Torbjörn Magnusson and Head of IR and Group Communications Jarmo Salonen will attend the conference. Please call +44 207 162 0025 (Europe) or +1 334 323 6201 (North America). Please be ready to state the conference ID '899481' and the conference title 'Sampo plc 2011 Q2 Release'. The telephone conference can also be followed from a direct transmission on the Internet, at www.sampo.com/result. A recorded version will later be available at the same address. SAMPO PLC Investor Relations and Group Communications Distribution: NASDAQ OMX Helsinki The principal media Financial Supervisory Authority www.sampo.com [HUG#1535562]