Bure releases capital on its Venture Capital holdings

Bure releases capital on its Venture Capital holdings Bure has reinsured some of its holdings related to Innovationskapital. By an agreement with the Third Swedish National Pension Fund (3AP), Bure releases capital of SEK 120M. This will affect this year's profit positively with more than SEK 40M. This agreement reduces Bure's exposure in the Venture Capital area and fits Bure's current focus of developing and building larger industrial structures in selected sectors. Gothenburg, 27 June 2002 Bure Equity AB (publ) For further information, please contact: Björn Boldt Christmas, Senior Investment Manager +46 705-88 76 85 ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/06/27/20020627BIT00180/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/06/27/20020627BIT00180/wkr0002.pdf