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SHARE BUY-BACK PROGRAMME

As previously announced, the Annual General Meeting of Storebrand ASA held on 28 April 2004 granted the company's Board of Directors a mandate for the company to acquire its own shares. At a Board meeting held on 15 June 2004, the Board of Directors of Storebrand ASA approved a mandate for the company's management to start a first tranch of a share buy-back programme.   Storebrand will report acquisitions of its own shares and the company's cumulative holding of its own shares by issuing stock exchange notices. Information on the share buy-back programme will also be provided on the

OMHEX sells XACT Fonder to Svenska Handelsbanken

OMHEX sells XACT Fonder to Svenska Handelsbanken As part of OMHEX's continued focus on core operations, OMHEX has signed an agreement with Svenska Handelsbanken to sell XACT Fonder AB to Handelsbanken, with transfer of ownership to be effected on June 30, 2004. XACT Fonder manages Sweden's first exchange-traded funds (ETFs), XACT OMX and XACT SBX. The deal will have a positive affect on OMHEX's result of approximately SEK 16 million during the second quarter 2004. "We started XACT Fonder four years ago with the intention of establishing and developing an exchange-traded fund product for the

Sonera introduces Sony's music service to its mobile customers

Sonera introduces Sony's music service to its mobile customers Sonera brings Sony's StreamMan service to its mobile customers. With StreamMan, you can enjoy a unique musical experience anywhere and anytime. The service allows you for example to listen only to your personal favourites or music of a certain theme or style - and with no commercials. The service is at the disposal of Sonera customers from now on. Sony's music service, presented at the Hanover CeBIT fair in March, has expanded greatly, and from autumn, it will also be available on the Internet through broadband access. StreamMan

HiQ supports Renova AB in the development of a new transport planning system

HiQ supports Renova AB in the development of a new transport planning system HiQ Göteborg is cooperating with Renova AB on the development of a new transport planning system aimed at facilitating and improving efficiency in the treatment of waste and recycling materials. The transport planning system will allow Renova's control centre to plan and dispatch transport assignments direct to the vehicles. These can in turn report back (on weight, quantity, deviation, etc.) as soon as the assignments have been completed. The actual communication between the control centre and the vehicles is

Skanska to build hospital in Florida for SEK 608 M (USD 80 M)

Skanska to build hospital in Florida for SEK 608 M (USD 80 M) Skanska has been awarded the construction assignment to build a new hospital that will replace the existing facility at the Homestead Hospital in Homestead, Florida. The contract is valued at SEK 608 M (USD 80 M) and is included in order bookings for the second quarter of 2004. The customer is Baptist Health South Florida. The new 28,500-square-meter (307,000-square-foot) hospital facility will feature additional clinical space for outpatient diagnostic services, more operating rooms and 120 private patient rooms. The emergency

Outcome of Framfab's Rights Issue

Outcome of Framfab's Rights Issue Framfab AB's (publ) new share issue, which has been fully subscribed and provides the company with SEK 164 million prior to transaction costs, was subscribed for by shareholders, with and without preferential rights, to more than 90 per cent. The remaining 10 percent have been allocated those investors that guaranteed part of the share issue. The new share issue, which closed on June 9, 2004, was to more than 90 per cent subscribed for with preferential rights and without preferential rights by subscribers who had also subscribed for shares with

Notice of extraordinary general meeting

Notice of extraordinary general meeting The shareholders of Ainax AB (publ) (the "company") are hereby convened to an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on Thursday 1 July 2004, at 13.00, at Stockholmsmässan (main entrance), Mässvägen 1, Älvsjö in Stockholm, Sweden. Refreshments will be served from 12.00. Registration Shareholders who wish to participate in the general meeting must - be listed in the share register maintained by VPC AB (the Swedish Securities Register Centre; the "VPC") on 21 June 2004; and - give notice of their intention to participate in the general meeting no

Sectra becomes 100% owner of Mamea Imaging AB

Sectra becomes 100% owner of Mamea Imaging AB The Swedish IT and medical-technology company Sectra AB has acquired 5,260 shares in Mamea Imaging AB from Life Equity Sweden KB, thereby increasing its ownership holding in the company from 95% to 100%. The acquisition has no material effect on Sectra's earnings and financial position. "As a result of the acquisition, we have completed the alignment of the ownership structure in Mamea Imaging AB," says Jan-Olof Brüer, CEO and President of Sectra AB. "The acquisition of Mamea is part of our increased focus on the mammography market, where our

OMHEX sells XACT Fonder to Svenska Handelsbanken

As part of OMHEX's continued focus on core operations, OMHEX has signed an agreement with Svenska Handelsbanken to sell XACT Fonder AB to Handelsbanken, with transfer of ownership to be effected on June 30, 2004. XACT Fonder manages Sweden's first exchange-traded funds (ETFs), XACT OMX and XACT SBX. The deal will have a positive affect on OMHEX's result of approximately SEK 16 million during the second quarter 2004.   "We started XACT Fonder four years ago with the intention of establishing and developing an exchange-traded fund product for the Swedish market. With XACT Fonder's

Akzo Nobel divests French industrial resins business

Akzo Nobel divests French industrial resins business Arnhem, the Netherlands, June 16, 2004 - Akzo Nobel Coatings has sold its French industrial resins business to Spanish company Derivados Forestales S.A. All 36 employees have transferred to the new business. Trading under the name Casco Industrie SnC., Akzo Nobel's resins operations in France manufactured formaldehyde and resins at the facility in Ambarès and had most of its customers in the French particle board industry. The business had sales of EUR 17 million in 2003. Casco's wood adhesives operations in France were not included in

Truck deliveries January-May 2004

Truck deliveries January-May 2004 Total deliveries of trucks from the Volvo Group's three truck companies increased 20% through May this year, compared with the year-earlier period. Deliveries from Mack rose 28%, while deliveries from Renault Trucks were up 14%. Deliveries from Volvo Trucks increased 23% during the period. "Order bookings for the Group's trucks continue to develop favorably and remain at a high level. We are now proceeding with increasing the pace in our industrial systems," says Volvo CEO Leif Johansson. During the past 12 months, order bookings for the Group's truck

ETTEPLAN AND NEXTROM TO ESTABLISH AN ENG

ETTEPLAN OYJ RELEASE 16 June 2004 9.00 a.m. 1(1)ETTEPLAN AND NEXTROM TO ESTABLISH AN ENGINEERINGDESIGN OFFICE IN CHINA Etteplan Oyj and Shanghai Nextrom Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd.have signed a Letter of Intent, according to which the companies willestablish a joint venture to Shanghai, China. According to theagreement the ownership in the joint venture is divided between thecompanies so that the Etteplan Group possesses 87,5 % and ShanghaiNextrom Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd 12,5 %. The agreement supports Etteplan’s internationalisation and followsEtteplan'

Buer sells all its shares in Elmo Leather

Bure sells all its shares in Elmo Leather Bure is selling all its shares in Elmo Leather, equivalent to approximately 10 per cent of the company. The sale will generate a liquidity contribution of approximately SEK 12M and a capital gain of around SEK 8M. The sale relates to the whole company. The buyers are Elmo Leather's President, Nalle Johansson, and the company's Executive Vice President, Anders Bengtsson. Bure has owned Elmo Leather jointly with Nordic Capital and Accent Equity Partners. Gothenburg, 15 June 2004 Bure Equity AB (publ) For further information, please contact: Johan

Report on operations in the year ended April 30, 2004

Report on operations in the year ended April 30, 2004 · Profit after taxes increased to SEK 248 M (234). Earnings per share before dilution in-creased to SEK 7.63 (7.29) and after dilution to SEK 7.63 (7.14). · Operating profit amounted to SEK 306 M (323) and the operating margin was 11 percent (12). · Cash flow after investments rose sharply to SEK 363 M (288). · Order bookings rose 2 percent to SEK 3,262 M (3,186). At fixed exchange rates, order bookings increased 12 percent. Order bookings in the fourth quarter were SEK 1,119 M (974), up 15 percent. · The order backlog at April 30, 2004

NEW HOPE IN THE INCREASING BATTLE AGAINST GLAUCOMA

PRESS RELEASEStockholm, June 15, 2004For Immediate ReleaseNEW HOPE IN THE INCREASING BATTLE AGAINST GLAUCOMAScientific meeting in Vienna hears of new potential use for Gamma Knife® surgeryDelegates at the 12th Leksell Gamma Knife® Society meeting in Vienna were recently presented the results of a study which showed that Gamma Knife® surgery reduces the main complications of advanced glaucoma where conventional therapy fails. At the same time, Gamma Knife® surgery is non-invasive and therefore not traumatic for the patient with a fast rate of post-treatment recovery.Glaucoma

Hagströmer & Qviberg and Cazenove receive assignment to place SWECO shares

Hagströmer & Qviberg and Cazenove receive assignment to place SWECO shares CapMan has requested that Hagströmer & Qviberg and Cazenove consider a placement of shares in Sweco AB (publ) ("Sweco") through a book-building procedure. In addition, leading executives at SWECO, who together hold 340,000 warrants with a duration until 30/6 2004 that give rights to 394,740 shares, have requested Hagströmer & Qviberg and Cazenove consider a simultaneous placement of those shares in SWECO to which the warrants give rights. SWECO är Nordens ledande konsultföretag med samlad kunskap inom teknik, miljö

Song supplies fixed-line telephony to Vattenfall

Song Networks Holding AB’s Swedish subsidiary Song Networks Svenska AB announced today that it has signed a major agreement with Vattenfall Försäljning Sverige regarding fixed-line telephony. Song Networks is becoming the new supplier to Vattenfall and its approximately 110,000 telephony customers. The agreement will run for 2 years and is estimated to be worth SEK 250 million.“This has been a very pleasing deal for us at Song. It clearly shows that our services within fixed-line telephony are doing well on the market. It is particularly pleasing as we are investing continually in the

Trade subject to notification

Moreover Karl Otto Tveter has sold 8,833 shares at NOK 172.90.  Tveters total holdings after these transactions are 21,667 options and 1,000 Orkla-shares.   A total of 1,947,772 options have currently been issued. Moreover, Orkla has an exposure through a cash-settled financial derivative of 450,000 underlying shares in the hedge position related to the remaining part of the cash bonus programme.   Orkla currently holds 7,557,090 shares. The resolution adopted by the Annul General Meeting to amortise 1,607,151 shares is expected to be carried out in August this year. When the

"We are just beginning to experience the benefits of mobility," says Ericsson's President and CEO at CommunicAsia

At today's media briefing at CommunicAsia in Singapore, Carl-Henric Svanberg, President and CEO of Ericsson, the world's leading telecom supplier, spoke about Asia's important role in the development of communications trends, services and applications for the benefit of consumers worldwide."We regard Asia Pacific as the world's greenhouse for mobile communications," said Carl-Henric Svanberg at CommunicAsia. "Asia is a very exciting region with one of the world's lowest mobile penetrations as well as the world's most advanced mobile users." "With Ericsson Expander we can offer operators

Fraport Traffic Figures - May 2004

Fraport Traffic Figures - May 2004: Frankfurt Airport Records Double- digit Traffic Growth in May / Passenger and Cargo Boom Continues - Fraport Group's Airports Achieve Noticeable Increases Frankfurt/Main, Germany (ots) - As in the previous months, Frankfurt Airport's (FRA) passenger figures rose noticeable again in May 2004. Fraport AG, the airport's owner and manager, recorded more than 4.4 million passengers at continental Europe's largest airport in the reporting month, some 11.9 percent more than in May 2003. Those regions most affected a year ago by the impact of the Iraq war and

Stora Enso?s converted shares recorded i

STORA ENSO OYJ Stock Exchange Announcement 15 June 2004 at 11.00Stora Enso’s converted shares recorded in Finnish trade register During the 1–31 May 2004 conversion period there were 4conversions and a total of 25 053 series A shares were convertedinto R shares. The shares were recorded in the Finnish traderegister today, 15 June 2004, and trading in the new R shareswill start on 16 June 2004. Breakdown of shares after conversion: A shares 180 070 576R shares 657 172 823Total 837 243 399 For further information, please contact:Heidi Puusa, Financial Communications, tel.

Song supplies fixed-line telephony to Vattenfall

Song supplies fixed-line telephony to Vattenfall Song Networks Holding AB's Swedish subsidiary Song Networks Svenska AB announced today that it has signed a major agreement with Vattenfall Försäljning Sverige regarding fixed-line telephony. Song Networks is becoming the new supplier to Vattenfall and its approximately 110,000 telephony customers. The agreement will run for 2 years and is estimated to be worth SEK 250 million. "This has been a very pleasing deal for us at Song. It clearly shows that our services within fixed-line telephony are doing well on the market. It is particularly

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