Per Lindberg receives award for best CEO

BillerudKorsnäs’ CEO Per Lindberg was awarded for best CEO in Large Cap Company in IR Nordic Markets Sweden 2016.

IR Nordic Markets is the biggest study of IR in the Nordic region and was carried out by Regi for the 19th year in a row. In the study, presented yesterday at IR Nordic Markets Awards Sweden 2016, assessments from analysts in the Nordic region and Europe formed the basis of the analysis of the financial communication of listed companies.

The category Best Swedish CEO Large Cap consisted of 46 companies and is calculated from the averages of three criterias: Trustworthiness, Public performance and Communication. Based on these criterias, financial analysts have ranked Per as the top performer.

For further information, please contact:

Henrik Essén, SVP Communication and Sustainability, +46 (0)8 553 335 00

BillerudKorsnäs provides packaging materials and solutions that challenge conventional packaging for a sustainable future. We are a world-leading provider of primary fibre based packaging materials and have customers in over 100 countries. The company has 7 production sites in Sweden, Finland and the UK and about 4 200 employees in over 13 countries. BillerudKorsnäs has an annual turnover of about SEK 22 billion and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. www.billerudkorsnas.com