Sweco completes the acquisition of Vectura

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All conditions have been fulfilled and Sweco has on 31 July 2013 closed the previously announced acquisition of Vectura. Sweco has acquired all shares in Vectura from the Swedish Government for a consideration consisting of a purchase price in cash amounting to 927 MSEK (equity value). The final value of the acquisition (enterprise value) amounts to approximately 900 MSEK. Through the acquisition Sweco becomes the largest engineering consultancy in the Nordic market.

Vectura, with approximately 1,327 MSEK in annual sales and approximately 1,200 employees, is the Nordic region’s leading provider of consulting services for transport infrastructure and has an especially strong position in the Swedish railway sector. The acquisition will give Sweco annual sales of approximately 8,800 MSEK and a total of approximately 9,000 employees.

For further information on the acquisition of Vectura, please see Sweco’s press release dated 17 June 2013.

For more information contact:

Tomas Carlsson, President and CEO of Sweco, tel: +46 8 695 66 60, +46 70 552 92 75

Fredrik Hedlund, Head of Corporate Communications at Sweco, tel: +46 8 695 66 12, +46 73 412 66 12

Sweco is an international consulting group with combined expertise in consulting engineering, environmental technology and architecture. Sweco has annual sales of approximately SEK 8.8 billion and around 9,000 employees in the Nordic region and Central and Eastern Europe. The company has projects currently underway in some 80 countries worldwide. Sweco is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB.

Sweco discloses the information provided herein pursuant to the Securities Markets Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication at 11:00 CET on 31 July 2013.

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