Ahead of Cardo AB's annual general meeting

The annual general meeting will be held on Monday, April 11 2005 at 5 pm at Slagthuset, Jörgen Kocksgatan 7A, Malmö, Sweden. An agenda containing the matters that are proposed to be brought before the general meeting is included in the official notice to attend the meeting, which accompanies this press release and which will be published on March 4 in the newspaper Post- och Inrikes Tidningar and on March 6 in the newspapers Göteborgs-Posten, Svenska Dagbladet and Sydsvenska Dagbladet. The official notice is also available at Cardo’s website, www.cardo.se As will be seen from the notice, the board of directors recommends to the annual general meeting both that a regular dividend of SEK 8.00 per share be declared for the financial year 2004 and that the board be authorized to repurchase own shares before the next annual general meeting in accordance with the detailed terms set out in the notice. Malmö, Sweden, March 4 2005 Cardo AB (publ) For further information, please contact: Christer Roskvist, Head of Public Relations, phone +46 40 35 04 25, 35 04 00