Annual General Meeting of AarhusKarlshamn AB (publ)

Annual General Meeting of AarhusKarlshamn AB (publ)

At today's Annual General Meeting of AarhusKarlshamn AB (publ) the following was
resolved:

Board of Directors and Auditor
The number of directors will continue to amount to ten. The Meeting re-elected
Melker Schörling, Carl Bek-Nielsen, Martin Bek-Nielsen, John Goodwin, Mikael
Ekdahl, Ebbe Simonsen, Märit Beckeman, Jerker Hartwall, Anders Davidsson and
Ulrik Svensson as directors. Melker Schörling was re-elected Chairman of the
Board and Carl Bek-Nielsen was re-elected Deputy Chairman of the Board. The fees
to the Board of Directors shall continue to amount to SEK 2,650,000 in total
(including fees for committee work).

The Meeting re-elected the accounting firm Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers AB,
with authorised public accountant Anders Lundin as auditor in charge, for a
period of mandate of four years. The Meeting resolved that the auditor shall be
remunerated in accordance with agreement. 

At the subsequent statutory board meeting it was resolved to re-elect Mikael
Ekdahl (convening) and John Goodwin as members of the Remuneration Committee. It
was further resolved to re-elect Ulrik Svensson (convening), Mikael Ekdahl and
Martin Bek-Nielsen as members of the Audit Committee.

Dividend
In accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors, the Meeting resolved
to declare a dividend of SEK 4,00 per share. Monday 25 May 2009 was determined
as record date for the payment of dividend. Payment from Euroclear Sweden AB is
expected to commence on Thursday 28 May 2009. 

Nomination Committee
Mikael Ekdahl (BNS Holding), Carl Bek-Nielsen (BNS Holding), Henrik Didner
(Didner & Gerge Aktiefond) were re-elected and KG Lindvall (Swedbank Robur
fonder) new elected as members of the Nomination Committee for the period up to
and including the Annual General Meeting 2010, whereby Mikael Ekdahl was
appointed Chairman of the Nomination Committee.


Guidelines for remuneration to senior executives
The Meeting approved the Board of Directors' proposal regarding guidelines for
remuneration of senior executives, principally entailing that salaries and other
terms of remuneration of the management shall be competitive and in accordance
with the market. In addition to fixed salary, the management may also receive
variable remuneration with a pre-determined cap based on the outcome of targeted
results on group level and in the individual area of responsibility, as well as
other benefits. Apart from the said variable remuneration, incentive programmes
related to the share or share price can be resolved upon from time to time.
Pension benefits shall be either income or fee based or a combination of both,
however, with an individual pension age of not less than 60 years. On notice of
termination by a senior executive, a notice period of six months shall apply
without any right to severance pay. At dismissal by the company, the notice
period shall be twelve months with a possible right to severance pay
pre-determined to a maximum of twelve months. The Board of Directors shall be
entitled to deviate from the guidelines if, in an individual case, there are
particular grounds for such a deviation.

Reduction of the share capital
The Meeting approved the Board of Directors' proposal regarding reduction of the
share capital as a consequence of the Board of Director's decision to cancel
Aarhus United A/S' 485 614 shares in AarhusKarlshamn AB, corresponding to
approximately 1.17 per cent of the capital and votes in the company. The Meeting
resolved to reduce the share capital with the nominal value of the cancelled
shares, SEK 4,856,140, and that this amount shall be transferred to the
statutory reserve. 

Conditional amendment of the Articles of Association
The Meeting approved the Board of Directors' proposal regarding amendment of the
Articles of Association in respect of notice of General Meetings of
shareholders, entailing that notices shall be published in The Official Swedish
Gazette (Sw. Post- och Inrikes Tidningar) as well as on the Company's website,
and an announcement with information that the notice has been issued shall be
published in Svenska Dagbladet. The amendment is conditional upon that the
provisions of the Companies Act (Sw. aktiebolagslagen) regarding notice of
General Meetings will be amended and also entails that the provision regarding
the time for publishing notices convening General Meetings is removed.

Comments from the CEO and President
CEO and President Jerker Hartwall reported on the company's operations during
the year 2008 and commented on the continuing work within the Group. The Speech
and presentation of Jerker Hartwall can be found in its entirety on the
company's web site www.aak.com. 

For further information, kindly contact

Jerker Hartwall
President and CEO
Phone: +46 40 627 83 00
E-mail: jerker.hartwall@aak.com

Anders Byström
CFO
Phone: +46 40 627 83 00
Mobile: +46 709 885 613
E-mail: anders.bystrom@aak.com

Bo Svensson	
CIO 
Phone: + 46 454 820 00 or +46 40 627 83 00
Mobile: + 46 708 182 193
E-mail: bo.svensson@aak.com

AarhusKarlshamn AB (publ) discloses the information provided herein pursuant to
the Securities Markets Act ( Sw. lagen om värdepappersmarknaden) and/or the
Financial Instruments Trading Act ( Sw. lagen om handel med finansiella
instrument). The information was submitted for publication at 12 p.m. on 19 May
2009.

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