Background information on financial consequences of sale of Polish asphalt and crushing operations

At the end of 2006, a contract was signed concerning the sale of the Polish asphalt and crushing operations, NCC Roads Polska, within the NCC Roads business area. The purchaser is the Austrian company Strabag. In order to clarify the consequences of the sale, NCC has compiled financial facts pertaining to the divested operations and the state of NCC Group’s remaining operations.

The purchase consideration amounted to SEK 1,050 million for a debt-free company and the earnings effect for NCC in 2007 will be SEK 400 million, which will be reported in the second quarter of 2007. NCC Roads Poland’s sales in 2006 amounted to SEK 1,526 million, resulting in profit of SEK 44 million.

A quarterly and accumulated summary of the effects on financial reporting for 2006 and 2007 is provided as an appendix to this press release and can be downloaded from NCC’s website www.ncc.info (in excel format). The effects on the second quarter will be reported in NCC’s six-month report, which will be published on August 23, 2007.

NCC Roads, which with the sale will concentrate its operations to the Nordic region, had sales of approximately SEK 10 billion in 2006 and 4,000 employees.

Appendix: Tables of divested operations, quarterly values and accumulated values.

For further information, please contact:
Ann-Sofie Danielsson, Chief Financial Officer, NCC Group,
+46 (0)8 585 517 17, +46 (0)706 740 720

Ulf Thorné, Press Relations Manager, NCC Group,
+46 (0)8 585 523 46, +46 (0)70 214 77 27)