Year-end report January-December 2008

Year-end report January-December 2008

Fourth quarter 2008
- Profit after tax amounted to SEK 121 m (19)

- Earnings per share amounted to SEK 1.89 (0.30)

- Cash flow for the period was a negative SEK 17 m (pos: 51)

- The shareholding in CMA Microdialysis was reduced to 49.9 percent in
connection with a private placement whereby, as of October, CMA became an
associated company rather than a subsidiary

- CMA Microdialysis implemented a private placement of SEK 56 m directed to
Investor Growth Capital

- Portfolio company Bure sold its subsidiary Anew Learning to AcadeMedia

- Portfolio company Bure spun off its entire holding in AcadeMedia to Bure
shareholders, whereby Skanditek's shareholding in AcadeMedia now amounts to 13.9
percent

- Portfolio company Bure resolves to implement a share-redemption program


Full-year, January-December 2008
- Profit after tax amounted to SEK 103 m (174)

- Earnings per share amounted to SEK 1.63 (2.64)

- Cash flow for the year was a negative SEK 117 m (neg: 22)

- Acquisition of 7 percent of PartnerTech, 28 percent of Theducation and 13
percent of The Chimney Pot. Ownership of Bure increased by 2 percent and of
AcadeMedia by 14 percent. Ownership in CMA reduced to just under 50 percent


After the end of the year
- Portfolio company Bure completed its redemption program. Skanditek received
SEK 201 m.

- Portfolio company Bure announced that in cooperation with Altor Fund III it
will be acquiring Carnegie Investment Bank AB and Max Matthiessen Holding AB.

- Associated company Vitrolife announced its intention to direct a voluntary
share-swap offer to the shareholders of MediCult under which it will offer to
acquire all of the shares outstanding in MediCult.


The information in this year-end report is of the type that Skanditek is
obligated to disclose in accordance with the Securities Market Act and the
Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for disclosure
on February 20, 2009 at 12:30 p.m. CET.


For further information, please contact:
Patrik Tigerschiöld, President,
Telephone +46 (0)8-614 00 20
Elisabeth Koch, CFO,
Telephone +46 (0)8-614 00 20