SAPPI LIMITED - Retirement of a director

Retirement of a director

Sappi Limited
(Registration number 1936/008963/06)
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
Share code: SAP
ISIN: ZAE000006284)
NYSE code SPP
(‘Sappi’ or the ‘Company’)


Sappi Limited Directorate – PROFESSOR M FELDBERG


Having reached Sappi’s mandatory retirement age for non-executive directors, Professor M
Feldberg will retire from the Sappi Board on 31 December 2012. He will be succeeded as
Lead Independent Director, by Sir Nigel Rudd, who has been a director of Sappi for more
than six years.

20 December 2012


Denis O’Connor
Group Secretary
Sappi Limited
Tel +27 (0)11 407 8072
Fax +27 (0)11 339 1881
Denis.OConnor@sappi.com

Sponsor: UBS South Africa (Pty) Ltd

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