AGA's Annual General Meeting

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 AGA Aktiebolag (publ) Corporate Communications ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/03/30/20000330BIT01050/bit0001.pdf http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/03/30/20000330BIT01050/bit0002.doc