Drott's management buys options

Drott's management buys options Thirty-six senior executives in the Drott Group have acquired a total of 443,800 call options for class B shares in the company. The number of options allocated per person is in the range of 3,500 - 60,000. A market appraisal has been carried out by Swedbank Markets. The average share price on the issue date was SEK 116.30. The redemption date is 30 March 2004, with an exercise price of SEK 134.50 per share. For each option, a price of SEK 10 is paid. The Board's assessment is that the appraisal has been made on market-based grounds. The option program is conditional on the authorization of the Annual General Meeting to use 550,000 Drott shares (of the total of 5,313,170 Drott shares already owned by Drott) as security for Drott's obligations to the option holders. These 550,000 shares correspond to 0.57 percent of the total number of Drott shares outstanding. Drott AB (publ) For additional information, contact Mats Mared, President and CEO, telephone +46-8-545 83 010 ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by BIT http://www.bit.se The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/03/28/20010328BIT00880/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/03/28/20010328BIT00880/bit0001.pdf