Metsäliitto is one of the largest forest industry groups in the world with annual sales of approximately EUR 6.5 billion. The company focuses on manufacturing a variety of paper, tissue, and wood products, as well as pulp. The Group has more than 16,000 employees. Its five business areas include wood supply, wood products, pulp, board and paper and tissue and cooking paper. The Group's parent company Metsäliitto Cooperative and subsidiaries Metsä-Botnia, M-real and Metsä Tissue operate in 30 countries. Metsäliitto Cooperative is a cooperative organisation for Finnish forest owners and has some 130,000 members.
Sales (EUR mill.) 2008:
6 434 Operating result 2
Result before taxes -233
Net result for the period -511
Return on capital employed, % 0.5
Return on equity, % -8.4
Equity ratio, %26.0
Net gearing ratio, % 149