Swedish Match announces appointment of Acting CFO

Lars Dahlgren, Vice President Group Finance, has been appointed Acting Chief Financial Officer effective April 1, 2004.

Lars Dahlgren has been with Swedish Match since 1996. He has a broad experience on management level from various international positions within the Group. Lars has worked with Group Finance on the executive level since May 2002 primarily in the areas of business control and M&A issues.

“Lars brings a great deal of value and expertise to our management team, and will help us in reaching our goal to be one of the world’s largest non-cigarette tobacco companies”, said Sven Hindrikes, Acting President and CEO.



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