Roger Leon new Head of Consumer Products North America

Roger Leon new Head of Consumer Products North America

Roger Leon has been appointed new Head of business sector Consumer Products
North America and member of Husqvarna Group Management, effective as of 1 July
2008. He succeeds Robert E. Cook who will retire. 

Roger Leon is currently Chief Operating Officer of Husqvarna's Consumer Products
North America. He joined Electrolux in 1989 where he held several leading
positions in both outdoor products and white goods, within finance,
manufacturing and supply-chain management. Mr Leon was born in 1954 and is a
graduate in law. 

Husqvarna was spun off from Electrolux and listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange in
June 2006.

For more information, please contact Åsa Stenqvist, head of Group staff
Communications and Investor Relations, 
at +46-8-738 64 94. 


Husqvarna is the world's largest producer of lawn mowers, chainsaws and portable
petrol-powered garden equipment such as trimmers and blowers. The Group is also
a world leader in diamond tools and cutting equipment for the construction and
stone industries. Net sales in 2007 were SEK 33.3 billion and the average number
of employees was 16,000.