Handelsbanken completes purchase of Lokalbanken
Handelsbanken is now completing the purchase of Lokalbanken i Nordsjælland A/S. This is after 97.7 percent of the shareholders in Lokalbanken, at the end of the bid period, have accepted Handelsbanken's bid which was presented on 15 September. "Thus we expect to complete the acquisition during October," says Ulf Riese, CFO of Handelsbanken. For further information, please contact: Ulf Riese, CFO, phone: +46 8 - 22 92 20Mikael Hallåker, head of Investor Relations, phone: +46 8 - 701 29 95