Swedish Match — Major Shareholding Notification 2021

Feb 11, 2021

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	10/02/2021
Limit for number of shares	5 %
Limit for number of votes	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	7,397,939
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	7,397,939
Percentage
Directly held shares	4.561 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	4.561 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares	4.561 %	7,397,939
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2
Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3
- Physically settled
- Cash settled	0.1297 %	210,373
Total	4.6907 %	7,608,312

Chain of controlling companies

Voting rights % Voting rights Company

117,408	0.07238	BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.
306,970	0.18925	BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
1,431,404 0.88249		BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
22,445	0.01384	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
229	0.00014	BlackRock International Limited
2,553,862 1.57452		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association
2,018,399 1.24439		BlackRock Fund Advisors
8,769	0.00541	BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
1,115	0.00069	BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited
127,701	0.07873	BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG
128,708	0.07935	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
75,390	0.04648	BlackRock Advisors, LLC
815,558	0.50281	BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
302	0.00019	BlackRock (Singapore) Limited
52	0.00003	Aperio Group, LLC

Group total holdings

Voting rights 7,608,312

Percentage of voting rights 4.6907

Notes (other relevant informations according to law)

The disclosure obligation arose due to total holdings in shares and voting rights for BlackRock, Inc. going below 5%.

Published

11/02/2021 18:16

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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