Dates fixed for financial reports and Annual General Meeting in 2005

Dates fixed for financial reports and Annual General Meeting in 2005 Holmen´s reporting in 2005 will be as follows: 2 February Year-end Report for 2004 28 April Interim Report, January - March 17 August Interim Report, January - June 27 October Interim Report, January - September The Annual General Meeting will be held on 5 April. The Annual Report for 2004 will be published at the beginning of March and will be distributed to the shareholders by post. Holmen is a forest products industry group with the capacity to produce 2.4 million tonnes of paper and paperboard per year. Europe, which accounts for some 90 per cent of the Group's turnover, is by far the largest market. Holmen Paper produces paper for daily newspapers, magazines, directories and advertising products at three Swedish mills and one Spanish mill. Iggesund Paperboard produces paperboard for packaging and graphic purposes at two Swedish mills and one English mill. Iggesund Timber produces sawn timber at one Swedish sawmill. Holmen Skog manages the Group's one million hectares of forests and the annual volume harvested from company forests is some 2.5 million cubic metres. Holmen Kraft produces in a normal year some 1,100 GWh of electricity at wholly and partly owned hydroelectric power stations in Sweden. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2004/04/01/20040401BIT20260/wkr0006.pdf Dates fixed for financial reports and Annual General Meeting in 2005 http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2004/04/01/20040401BIT20260/wkr0008.doc