Swedish Match — Major Shareholding Notification 2020

May 18, 2020

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	14/05/2020
Limit for number of shares	5 %
Limit for number of votes	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	8,071,258
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	8,071,258
Percentage
Directly held shares	4.97612 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	4.97612 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	4.97612 %	8,071,258
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2	0.02451 %	39,752
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled - Cash settled	0.28029 %	454,637
Total	5.28092 %	8,565,647

Chain of controlling companies

	Voting rights % Voting rights Company
150,632	0.09287	BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.
523,571	0.32279	BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
1,427,461 0.88006		BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
29,274	0.01805	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
4,411	0.00272	BlackRock International Limited
3,029,090 1.86751		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
2,014,150 1.24177		BlackRock Fund Advisors
60,456	0.03727	BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
1,115	0.00069	BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited
188,850	0.11643	BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG
124,542	0.07678	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
105,184	0.06485	BlackRock Advisors, LLC
906,169	0.55867	BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
302	0.00019	BlackRock (Singapore) Limited
440	0.00027	BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.

Group total holdings

Voting rights 8,565,647

Percentage of voting rights 5.28092

Published

18/05/2020 15:53

Contact

Name Jana Blumenstein

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

*Source of information has chosen not to submit the data

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