Hemtex Nomination Committee appointed

Hemtex AB’s Annual General Meeting on September 5, 2007 authorized the Chairman of the Board to appoint a representative for each of the company’s three largest shareholders who, together with the Chairman, would constitute the Nomination Committee ahead of the election of Board members at the next Annual General Meeting.

Chairman of the Board Mats Olsson has appointed the following persons as members of the Nomination Committee:

Carl-Olof By, AB Industrivärden, representing 3,700,000 shares.

Per Larsson, representing a consortium of owners with total holdings of 3,200,224 shares.

Carl Rosén, Andra AP-fonden, representing 2,770,000 shares.

Accordingly, the Nomination Committee represents a total of approximately 33% of the company’s shares.

The Annual General Meeting will be held in Borås on September 3, 2008.

Shareholders who wish to submit proposals to the Nomination Committee can do so by e-mail to: valberedningen@hemtex.se or by letter to: Hemtex AB, Valberedningen, PO Box 495, SE-503 13 Borås, no later than May 30, 2008.