Inter IKEA Investments requests reclassification of A shares to B shares

Inter IKEA Investments requests reclassification of A shares to B shares Inter IKEA Investments has submitted a request to Skanska to reclassify 2,000,000 Skanska A shares to the comparable number of B shares. As a result of the reclassification, Inter IKEA Investments' share of voting rights declines from 10.9% to 8.6%. After reclassification, the number of A shares in Skanska will amount to 28,540,898, while the number of B shares in the company will total 390,012,174. For further information please contact: Anders Lilja, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, Skanska AB, tel +46 8 753 88 01 Peter Gimbe, Senior Vice President, Communications, Skanska AB, tel +46 8 753 88 38 This and previous releases can also be found at www.skanska.com ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2004/10/07/20041007BIT20010/wkr0001.pdf PDF