Extraordinary General Meeting of Swedish Match
Shareholders at an Extraordinary General Meeting of Swedish Match today resolved in favor of the proposal of the Board of Directors to redeem 34,752,689 shares at a re- demption price of SEK 35 per share. The company's share capital is thereby reduced by SEK 69,505,378. The total redemption amount is SEK 1,216,344,115. Shareholders at the Extraordinary General Meeting further decided in favor of the Board's proposal to implement a bonus issue by increasing the par value of each share from SEK 2.00 to SEK 2.20, after which the share capital will amount to SEK 948,947,258.60. The bonus issue