Hemtex Nomination Committee appointed

Hemtex AB’s Annual General Meeting on September 3, 2008 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.

After the three largest shareholders had been consulted by the Chairman, Hemtex’s Nomination Committee for 2009 has the following composition:

Stein Petter Ski, Hakon Invest AB, representing 7,755,138 shares.

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

Per Larsson, representing a consortium of owners with total holdings of 2,871,366 shares.

Accordingly, the Nomination Committee represents a total of approximately 49% of the company’s shares.

The Annual General Meeting will be held in Borås on September 2, 2009.

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 June 1, 2009.