Bergman & Beving

Report Publication Announcement • Aug 12, 2009

PRESS RELEASE

B&B TOOLS establishes new operating area

B&B TOOLS is currently coordinating the Product Companies encompassed by the B&B TOOLS Products operating area with the Group's IT, supply chain and central purchasing functions to form a new operating area known as B&B TOOLS Solutions ("Solutions").

The formation of Solutions will enable B&B TOOLS to take a coordinated approach to the Group's offering of products and services and to gradually implement required solutions related to the Group's logistics vision and IT strategy. Overall, this will enable the Group to establish more favourable conditions for coordination and streamlining, and to strengthen its development and purchasing potential.

The new operating area will be recognised separately as of the Interim Report for the first quarter of the current operating year (1 April – 30 June 2009), which will be published on 19 August 2009. In Appendix 1, the comparative data per quarter for the B&B TOOLS Group has been restated from 1 April 2008 until 31 March 2009 taking into consideration the changes stated above.

Stockholm, 12 August 2009

B&B TOOLS AB (publ)

For further information, contact: Mats Björkman, Executive Vice President & CFO, B&B TOOLS AB, telephone +46 8 660 10 30 Mats Karlqvist, Vice President - Investor Relations, B&B TOOLS AB, telephone +46 70 660 31 32

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B&B TOOLS provides the industrial and construction sectors in northern Europe with industrial consumables, industrial components and related services. The Group currently has annual revenue of approximately SEK 9.3 billion and approximately 2,900 employees.

This information is disclosed in accordance with the Swedish Securities Markets Act, the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act or demands stated in the regulations for issuers.

B&B TOOLS AB (publ)

APPENDIX 1

Pro forma – Recognition by operating area for 2008/2009 taking the new B&B TOOLS Solutions ("Solutions") operating area into account

REVENUE PER QUARTER AND					2008/2009
FULL-YEAR 2008/2009, MSEK	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Full-year
GROUP	2,653	2,283	2,347	2,042	9,325
MARKETS	1,765	1,511	1,599	1,379	6,254
Of which
Sweden1	824	615	684	541	2,664
Norway1	448	430	433	424	1,735
Finland1	281	256	265	217	1,019
TOOLS Momentum	223	211	225	209	868
SOLUTIONS	1,203	1,085	1,072	938	4,298
Of which
Product Companies	1,189	1,072	1,058	927	4,246
Group-wide	18	19	18	16	71
Eliminations	-333	-332	-342	-291	-1,298
OPERATING PROFIT/LOSS PER QUARTER					2008/2009
AND FULL-YEAR 2008/2009, MSEK	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Full-year
GROUP	213	167	110	21	511
MARKETS	116	77	51	-30	214
Of which
Sweden1	39	13	8	-61	-1
Norway1	40	29	23	24	116
Finland1	19	20	6	-7	38
TOOLS Momentum	21	24	20	21	86
SOLUTIONS	103	95	60	56	314
Of which
Product Companies	111	103	75	74	363
Group-wide	1	-1	2	0	2
Eliminations	-7	-4	-3	-5	-19
OPERATING MARGIN PER QUARTER AND					2008/2009
FULL-YEAR 2008/2009, %	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Full-year
GROUP	8.0	7.3	4.7	1.0	5.5
MARKETS	6.6	5.1	3.2	-2.2	3.4
Of which
Sweden1	4.7	2.1	1.2	-11.3	0.0
Norway1	8.9	6.7	5.3	5.7	6.7
Finland1	6.8	7.8	2.3	-3.2	3.7
TOOLS Momentum	9.4	11.4	8.9	10.0	9.9
SOLUTIONS	8.6	8.8	5.6	6.0	7.3
Of which
Product Companies	9.3	9.6	7.1	8.0	8.5
Group-wide	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Eliminations	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

¹ As of 1 April 2009, revenue and operating profit are recognised including the company in which chain operations are conducted. (Previously, only the revenue and profit of the Market Companies were recognised.) The comparative data above for the 2008/2009 financial year has been adjusted accordingly.