Lundbergs’ Annual General Meeting

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Lundbergs’ Annual General Meeting on Tuesday adopted the Board of Directors’ motion that a dividend of SEK 6.00 per share be paid for the 2008 fiscal year. The record date for dividends is April 3, 2009 and the dividend payment date is April 8, 2009.

Gunilla Berg, Lennart Bylock, Mats Guldbrand, Tom Hedelius, Fredrik Lundberg, Sten Peterson and Christer Zetterberg were re-elected and Carl Bennet was newly elected as Members of the Board. Katarina Lundberg was elected as a new Deputy Member of the Board. Mats Guldbrand was elected as Chairman of the Board.

Carl Bennet, aged 57, has a degree in business administration. His Board assignments include being Chairman and principal owner of the listed companies Getinge and Elanders, and the wholly owned industrial and trade group Lifco. Katarina Lundberg, aged 27, has a degree in business administration. Her previous professional experience includes working with investment strategy and macroeconomics in the companies ISI and Strategas in New York

The Meeting also resolved that director fees be paid in a total amount of SEK 1,500,000, of which SEK 350,000 is to be paid to the Chairman of the Board and SEK 175,000 to each other Member of the Board, apart from the President, plus SEK 100,000 for the Deputy Member of the Board.

Also in accordance with a motion from the Board, the Board was authorized to make decisions regarding the purchase of Series B Lundberg shares during the period up to the next Annual General Meeting. The shares are to be purchased on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm and be subject to the limit that Lundbergs’ holding of treasury shares may not exceed 10% of the total number of Company shares. The holding of treasury shares currently amounts to 145,483 Series B shares, corresponding to 0.2% of all of the shares in the Company.

During his address to the Meeting, Lundbergs’ President Fredrik Lundberg reported on the Company’s business trend. In the past ten years, the total return on the Lundberg share has averaged 16% annually. This may be compared with the return index for the stock market as a whole, which has grown by an annual average of 3% during the same period.

It was also reported that on March 27, 2009 net asset value after deferred tax amounted to SEK 334 per share, compared with SEK 356 per share on December 31, 2008.

Stockholm, March 31, 2009

L E Lundbergföretagen AB (publ)

This is the type of information that L E Lundbergföretagen AB (publ) is obligated to disclose in accordance with the Securities Market Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication on March 31, at 3:30 p.m.

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