Issuer ASSA ABLOY AB

BlackRock, Inc.

Instrument Series B Common Stock SE0000255648

Before the transaction
Shares	Data not given*
Voting rights	Data not given*
Transaction
Reason for major shareholding notification Buy
Date	19/10/2012

Limit for number of shares 5 % After the transaction

Quantity
Shares	18,730,437
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	18,730,437
Percentage
Directly held shares	5.05 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	3.45 %

Percentage of voting
rights:

Number of underlying

Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3

Chain of controlling companies
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	Voting rights % Voting rights Company
1,820,287 0.49		BlackRock (Luxembourg) S.A.
311,650	0.08	BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.
984,040	0.27	BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
1,343,693 0.36		BlackRock Advisors, LLC
28,627	0.01	BlackRock Asset Management Australia Limited
127,611	0.03	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
98,156	0.03	BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG
598,173	0.16	BlackRock Asset Management Ireland Limited
115,363	0.03	BlackRock Financial Management
1,743,103 0.47		BlackRock Fund Advisors
10,848	0	BlackRock Fund Managers (Isle of Man) Ltd
1,815,369 0.49		BlackRock Fund Managers Ltd
4,550,231 1.23		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.
194,859	0.05	BlackRock International Limited
52,759	0.01	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
1,991,048 0.54		BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd
848,041	0.23	BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
1,784	0	BlackRock Investments Canada, Inc.
843,842	0.23	BlackRock Japan Co Ltd
1,220,094 0.33		BlackRock Life Limited
30,859	0.01	iShares (DE) I InvAG mit Teilgesellschaftsvermoegen

Voting rights 18,730,437 Percentage of voting rights 3.45

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*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data

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