Swedish Match — Major Shareholding Notification 2016

Dec 21, 2016

Issuer Swedish Match AB

Holder

BlackRock, Inc.

Instrument

Instrument	Common stock
Before the transaction
Shares	Data not given*
Voting rights	Data not given*
Transaction
Reason for major shareholding notification Buy
Date	20/12/2016
Limit for number of shares	5 %
Limit for number of votes	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	9,947,174
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	9,947,174
Percentage
Directly held shares	5.27 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	5.27 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	5.27 %	9,947,174
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2 Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3	0.01 %	33,001
- Physically settled - Cash settled	0.42 %	795,399
Total	5.7 %	10,775,574

Chain of controlling companies

	Voting rights % Voting rights Company
29,346	0.01	BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V
1,597,889 0.84		BlackRockAdvisors (UK) Limited
136,013	0.07	BlackRock Advisors, LLC
121,517	0.06	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
186,513	0.09	BlackRock Asset Managment Deutschland AG
1,019	0	BlackRock Asset Managment North Asia Limited
460,052	0.24	BlackRock Financial Managment, Inc.
1,905,746 1		BlackRock Fund Advisors
4,502,612 2.44		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
118,121	0.06	BlackRock International Limited
196,793	0.1	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
639,865	0.33	BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
351,348	0.18	BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
528,740	0.28	BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.

Group total holdings

Voting rights 10,775,574

Percentage of voting rights 5.7

Published

21/12/2016 17:09

Contact

Name Laurel Clark

Phone 00442077433650 Email emeadisclosures@blackrock.com

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data