ASSA ABLOY

Major Shareholding Notification • Sep 5, 2012

Issuer ASSA ABLOY AB

Holder

The Capital Group Companies, Inc.

Instrument

Instrument	Class B SE0000255648
Before the transaction
Shares	Data not given*
Voting rights	Data not given*
Transaction
Reason for major shareholding notification Other
Date	03/09/2012
Limit for number of shares	10 %
Limit for number of votes	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	43,577,453
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	43,577,453
Percentage
Directly held shares	11.75 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	8.02 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares

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

• Physically settled
• Cash settled

Total

Chain of controlling companies

	Voting rights % Voting rights Company
31,558,500 5.81		Capital Research & Management Company
12,018,953 2.21		Capital Group International
Group total holdings
Voting rights		43,577,453

Percentage of voting rights 8.02

Notes (other relevant informations according to law)

Capital Group International, Inc. and Capital Research and Management Company will no longer report relevant holdings separately. The holdings will instead be reported in aggregate by the group's parent company.

Published

05/09/2012 11:49 Contact

Name Christopher Aquino

Phone +213 615 0469

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data

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