NOTICE OF H&M’s ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2012

Shareholders of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (publ) are hereby invited to the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Thursday 3 May 2012 at 3 p.m., at Victoriahallen, Stockholmsmässan, Älvsjö in Stockholm.

NOTICE OF ATTENDANCE
Shareholders who wish to attend the AGM shall

both be entered in the company’s register of shareholders kept by Euroclear Sweden AB in their own name (not nominee-registered) by Thursday 26 April 2012

and notify their intention to attend the Annual General Meeting by Thursday 26 April 2012, in writing to the address H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB, Carola Ardéhn, 106 38 Stockholm, Sweden, by telephone to +46 (0)8 796 55 00, by fax to +46 (0)8 796 55 44 or on the company’s website at www.hm.com/arsstamma.

The attendance of any assistants is to be notified to the same addresses by the same date.

Shareholders must state in the notice their name, civil identity number or corporate registration number, telephone number (daytime) as well as the number of shares held. In order to attend the meeting shareholders whose shares are nominee-registered must have their shares temporarily re-registered with Euroclear Sweden AB in their own name. Such re‑registration must be complete by Thursday 26 April 2012. In order to re-register shares in time, shareholders should make the request via their nominee in good time before this date. Such registration may be temporary. Passes for those attending will be sent out from 27 April onwards and should be received by shareholders by Monday 30 April at latest.

A proxy form is available on the company’s website at www.hm.com/arsstamma.

The full notice is included in the attached PDF

Contacts:
Kristina Stenvinkel, Head of Communications +46 (0)8 796 39 08, +46 (0)70 796 54 40
Nils Vinge, Head of Investor Relations +46 (0)8 796 52 50, +46 (0)70 796 52 50
Jan Andersson, Member of the Election Committee +46 (0)76 139 55 00

Press images and background information for editorial use can be downloaded from www.hm.com

The information in this notice is that which H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (publ) is required to disclose under the Securities Exchange and Clearing Operations Act. It was released for publication at 08:00 (CET) on 26 March 2012.

The notice of the Annual General Meeting will be published on 26 March on the company’s website www.hm.com/arsstamma and on 28 March 2012 in the newspapers DN and SvD, as well as in Post- och Inrikes Tidningar on the website of Bolagsverket, the Swedish Companies Registration Office.