Annual General Meeting of shareholders in Hufvudstaden 2007

Hufvudstaden held its Annual General Meeting today at the Grand Hotel, Vinterträdgården, in Stockholm. The Meeting adopted the Board of Directors’ proposal of a dividend of SEK 1.60 per share (1.45) as well as an extra dividend of SEK 10.00 per share.

Hufvudstaden held its Annual General Meeting today at the Grand Hotel, Vinterträdgården, in Stockholm. The Meeting adopted the Board of Directors’ proposal of a dividend of SEK 1.60 per share (1.45) as well as an extra dividend of SEK 10.00 per share. The total dividend was thus fixed at SEK 11.60 per share. The record date is Tuesday March 27, 2007 and the estimated date of dividend payment is Friday March 30, 2007.

Fredrik Lundberg, Claes Boustedt, Bengt Braun, Peter Egardt, Hans Mertzig, Sten Peterson, Anna-Greta Sjöberg and Ivo Stopner were reelected to the Board of Directors and Louise Lindh was elected as a new member.

Fredrik Lundberg was reelected as Chairman of the Board.

The Meeting decided that a remuneration of SEK 1,575,000 be paid to the Board of Directors, of which SEK 350,000 to the Chairman of the Board and SEK 175,000 to each of the other Board members, apart from the President.

The Meeting decided in accordance with the Board of Directors’ proposal to grant the Board renewed authorization to acquire and assign the Company’s own shares. At present, the Company holds 2.4 per cent of the total number of issued shares.


Stockholm, March 22, 2007

HUFVUDSTADEN AB (publ)


Ivo Stopner

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