Swedish Match — Major Shareholding Notification 2016

Dec 9, 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 Sell
Date	08/12/2016
Limit for number of shares	5 %
Limit for number of votes	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	8,932,248
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	8,932,248
Percentage
Directly held shares	4.7323 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	4.7323 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	4.7323 %	8,932,248
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2	0.4847 %	914,880
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled	0.6143 %	1,159,596
Total	5.8313 %	11,006,724

Chain of controlling companies

	Voting rights % Voting rights Company
29,346	0.0155	BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.
1,458,401 0.7726		BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
136,013	0.072	BlackRock Advisors, LLC
121,007	0.0641	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
181,748	0.0962	BlackRock Asset Mangement Deutschland AG
1,019	0.0005	BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited
460,052	0.2437	BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
1,913,141 1.0135		BlackRock Fund Advisors
4,680,308 2.4801		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
131,219	0.0695	BlackRock International Limited
198,624	0.1052	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
824,838	0.437	BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
341,488	0.1809	BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
529,520	0.2805	BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd

Group total holdings

Voting rights 11,006,724

Percentage of voting rights 5.8313

Published

09/12/2016 17:10

Contact

Name Laurel Clark

Phone +442077433650 Email emeadiclosures@blackrock.com

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data