In accordance with section 28a of the The Danish Companies Act and section 29 of the Danish Securities Trading Act it is reported that Brødrene Hartmann A/S' five major shareholders (The EDJ Group, The Brødrene Hartmann Foundation, Commodore ApS and AUS-Invest ApS, ATP and ATP Invest, and LD Equity 1 K/S) have announced to Hartmann that upon the merger of the share classes, they have changed the share of voting rights in Brødrene Hartmann A/S. Henceforth, the voting rights attached to the company's shares are identical. The five major shareholders now have the following shareholdings in Brødrene Hartmann A/S: +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | Shareholding | Share | Total | Total | | Company | (%) | of | shareholding | shareholding | | | | total | (no. of | nominal DKK | | | | voting | shares) | | | | | rights | at DKK 20 | | | | | (%) | | | |-------------+--------------+--------+--------------+--------------| | LD Equity 1 | 20.6 | 20.6 | 1,446,228 | 28,924,560 | | K/S | | | | | |-------------+--------------+--------+--------------+--------------| | The EDJ | 12.8 | 12.8 | 901,180 | 18,023,600 | | Group | | | | | |-------------+--------------+--------+--------------+--------------| | The | 12.2 | 12.2 | 853,300 | 17,066,000 | | Brødrene | | | | | | Hartmann | | | | | | Foundation | | | | | |-------------+--------------+--------+--------------+--------------| | Commodore | | | | | | ApS and | 10.6 | 10.6 | 743,900 | 14,878,000 | | AUS-Invest | | | | | | ApS | | | | | |-------------+--------------+--------+--------------+--------------| | ATP and ATP | 10.5 | 10.5 | 734,814 | 14,696,280 | | Invest | | | | | |-------------+--------------+--------+--------------+--------------| | Total | 66.7 | 66.7 | 4,679,422 | 93,588,440 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ The companies' announcements to Hartmann (in Danish only) are attached this release to OMX Nordic Exchange Copenhagen and The Danish FSA. Further information is available from: Tom Wrensted CFO Tel.: +45 45 97 00 00 Mobile: +45 21 76 50 30