Swedish Match — Major Shareholding Notification 2016

Dec 2, 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	30/11/2016
Limit for number of shares	5 %
Limit for number of votes	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	9,814,690
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	9,814,690
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	5.2 %	9,814,690
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2		906
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled	0.64 %	1,201,533
Total	5.84 %	11,017,129

Chain of controlling companies

Voting rights % Voting rights Company

873,249	0.46	BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
182,873	0.1	BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG
460,052	0.24	BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
1,402,141 0.74		BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
137,640	0.07	BlackRock International Limited
29,346	0.02	BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.
1,019	0	BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited
557,991	0.3	BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.
198,624	0.11	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
120,828	0.06	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
139,970	0.07	BlackRock Advisors, LLC
1,931,582 1.02		BlackRock Fund Advisors
4,648,837 2.47		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
332,977	0.18	BlackRock Investment Management, LLC

Group total holdings

Voting rights 11,017,129

Percentage of voting rights 5.84

Published

02/12/2016 10:58

Contact

Name Laurel Clark

Phone +442077433650 Email emeadisclosures@blackrock.com

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data