Swedish Match — Major Shareholding Notification 2008

Nov 18, 2008

Issuer Swedish Match AB

Holder

Wellington Management Company, LLP

Instrument

Instrument	Ordinary SE0000310336
Before the transaction
Shares	Data not given*
Voting rights	Data not given*
Transaction
Reason for major shareholding notification Buy
Date	12/11/2008
Limit for number of shares	5 %
Limit for number of votes	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	12,963,744
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	12,963,744
Percentage
Directly held shares	5.2 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	5.2 %

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

Published

18/11/2008 09:04

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data

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