AGA's Annual General Meeting

3/30/2000 11:42 AM EST

AGA'S ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Dividend
At the Annual General Meeting of AGA AB held on Thursday, March 30, 2000
a dividend for the 1999 fiscal year of Skr 3:00 per share (1998 3:00) was
declared.
The record date for the dividend is April 4, 2000. Dividends are expected
to be paid through VPC on April 7, 2000.

Board of Directors
Lennart Selander was re-elected as ordinary Board Member. Jan Hammrlund,
Lars Källsäter, Urban Murray and Leif Svensson were elected as ordinary
Board Members. At the Board's constituting meeting following the Annual
General Meeting, Lennart Selander was elected Chairman of the Board.

Delisting
The Board will apply for delisting of the AGA share from the OM Stockholm
Exchange with last trading day April 20, 2000, and also corresponding
delisting from foreign stock exchanges.

Compulsory acquisition
Linde, with a total holding in AGA over 99,6% of the shares and over 99,5
% of the voting rights, intend to initiate a compulsory acquisition of the
resting shares in AGA.

Lidingö March 30, 2000

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