Swedish Match Board of Directors Calls for Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting.STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- The Board of Directors of Swedish Match Swedish Match is a Swedish company based in Stockholm that makes tobacco products and matches. It was founded as Svenska Tändsticksaktiebolaget by Ivar Kreuger in 1917 in Jönköping ("City of the matches"). The company changed its name in 1980. has decided to call an extraordinary shareholders' meeting shareholders' meeting n. a meeting, usually annual, of all shareholders of a corporation (although in large corporations only a small percentage attend) to elect the Board of Directors and hear reports on the company's business situation. on December 4th 2006. The meeting will be held at the Company's headquarters in Stockholm. At the shareholders meeting it is proposed that a decision will be made to reduce the share capital by cancelling 20,596,181 repurchased shares equivalent to 6.9 percent of the number of shares of Swedish Match and to restore the share capital through a bonus issue without issuing new shares. It will further be proposed that the Board of Directors gets a renewed mandate to repurchase shares from the extraordinary meeting of the shareholders until the next Annual General Meeting in April 2007. Additional items, if any, will be described in the formal notice of the agenda for the meeting which will be published no later than November 6th, 2006. Swedish Match is a unique company with its range of market-leading brands in the product areas of snuff, cigars, pipe tobacco and chewing tobacco chewing tobacco, n See smokeless tobacco. chewing tobacco Smokeless tobacco, see there - tobacco's niche products - as well as matches and lighters. The Group's global operations Global Operations is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Barking Dog Studios and published by both Crave Entertainment and Electronic Arts. It was released in March of 2002, following its public multiplayer beta version which contained only the Quebec map. generated sales of 13,153 MSEK MSEK Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein (New York law firm) MSEK Million Swedish Kroner for the twelve month period ending June 30, 2006. Swedish Match shares are listed on Stockholmsborsen (SWMA SWMA Software Maintenance SWMA Solid Waste Management Act SWMA Sine-Weighted Moving Average SWMA Storm Water Management Authority, Inc. (Homewood, AL) SWMA Segmental Wall Motion Abnormality (cardiology) ).
Swedish Match AB (publ), SE-118 85 Stockholm
Visiting address: Rosenlundsgatan 36, Telephone: +46 8 658 02 00
Corporate Identity Number: 556015-0756
www.swedishmatch.com
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