Swedish Match's share buy-back

Swedish Match´s share buy-back Swedish Match has on June 21st, 2000 bought back 220,000 shares at an av- erage price of 26.90 SEK. Swedish Match´s current holding of its own shares amounts to 981,000. The total number of shares in Swedish Match amounts to 431,339,663. The total number of shares outstanding after the share buy-backs amounts to 430,358,663. For information on share redemption read press release date 2000-06-13. Swedish Match is an international group with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. The company manufactures a broad range of tobacco products, matches and disposable lighters which are sold in approximately 140 coun- tries. Sales for the twelve month period ending March 31, 2000 amounted to approximately 9,600 MSEK. Swedish Match is listed on Stockholm Stock Ex- change and on NASDAQ. For further information, please contact: Swedish Match AB Jan Arpi, Vice President office +46 8 658 01 81 Group Treasury ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/06/22/20000622BIT00090/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/06/22/20000622BIT00090/bit0002.pdf