Issuer Essity Aktiebolag (publ)

MFS Investment Management

Instrument

Instrument	B Share/Common SE0009922164
Before the transaction
Shares	Data not given*
Voting rights	Data not given*
Transaction
Reason for major shareholding notification Buy
Date	11/08/2017
Limit for number of shares	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	35,119,983
Directly held voting rights	35,119,983
Indirectly held voting rights	0
Percentage
Directly held shares	5 %
Directly held voting rights	0.55 %
Indirectly held voting rights	0 %

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	0.55 %	35,119,983
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled

	Voting rights % Voting rights Company
8,878,360 0.14		Massaschusetts Financial Services Company
276,904	0	MFS Heritage Trust Company
7,308,502 0.11		MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc.
2,624,566 0.04		MFS International (U.K.) Ltd.
3,896,600 0.06		MFS International Australia Pty. Ltd.
699,102	0.01	MFS International Singapore Pte. Ltd.
3,086,128 0.05		MFS Investment Management (LUX) S.a.r.l.
1,713,505 0.03		MFS Investment Management Canada Ltd.
6,636,316 0.1		MFS Investment Management K.K

Total 0.55 % 35,119,983

Voting rights 35,119,983 Percentage of voting rights 0.55

Published

17/08/2017 17:11

Name Robert R Flaherty Phone 6179545814 Email [email protected]

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data

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