Swedish Match — Major Shareholding Notification 2016

Sep 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	20/09/2016
Limit for number of shares	5 %
Limit for number of votes	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	8,672,986
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	8,672,986
Percentage
Directly held shares	4.595 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	4.595 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	4.595 %	8,672,986
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2	0.0195 %	36,874
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled	0.4606 %	869,359
Total	5.0751 %	9,579,219

Chain of controlling companies

Voting rights % Voting rights Company

279,500	0.1481	BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
181,348	0.0961	BlackRock Asset Management Deutchland AG
366,050	0.1939	BlackRock Financial Management Inc.
1,290,771 0.6839		BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
62,866	0.0333	BlackRock International Limited
29,346	0.0155	BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V
1,019	0.0005	BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited
489,580	0.2594	BlackRock Japan Co. Ltd
169,295	0.0897	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
105,724	0.056	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
84,314	0.0447	BlackRock Advisors, LLC
1,534,746 0.8131		BlackRock Fund Advisors
4,700,035 2.4901		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
284,625	0.1508	BlackRock Investment Management, LLC

Group total holdings

Voting rights 9,579,219

Percentage of voting rights 5.0751

Published

21/09/2016 17:47

Contact

Name Laurel Clark

Phone +44 20 7743 3650 Email emeadisclousures@blackrock.com

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data