Holmen AGM - Dividend of SEK 10.50 per share

Holmen’s AGM, held on Wednesday 13 April, resolved in favour of paying a
dividend of SEK 10.50 per share for the 2015 financial year, which is an
increase of 0.50 SEK per share compared to the preceding year.
The AGM re-elected Fredrik Lundberg, Carl Bennet, Lars G. Josefsson, Carl Kempe,
Louise Lindh, Ulf Lundahl, Henrik Sjölund and Henriette Zeuchner. Lars Josefsson
was elected as a new member of the Board for Göran Lundin, who declined re
-election. Fredrik Lundberg was re-elected Chairman of the Board.

KPMG AB was re-elected as company auditors. Joakim Thilstedt, authorised public
accountant, has been appointed principal auditor.

The AGM resolved in favour of mandating the Board for the period until the next
AGM to make decisions to buy back the company’s own shares via the stock market.
Acquisitions may be made of up to so many Class B shares that the company’s own
shareholding does not exceed 10 per cent of all shares in the company at any
time. The Board was also mandated to make decisions to use bought-back shares as
settlement for acquisitions or to finance such acquisitions. The 2015 AGM gave
the Board a corresponding mandate.

The AGM resolved in favour of implementation of a long-term share saving program
directed to the Executive Management and Business Area Managers. The program
shall be implemented after the Annual General Meeting 2016 in Holmen. The AGM
also resolved that the company's commitment to deliver shares to the
participants in the share saving program will be completed by transfers of
previously held as treasury shares.

Excerpt from President and CEO Henrik Sjölund's speech to the AGM:

“Forest and energy assets are amazing renewable resources with the potential for
increased cash flow over time and constitute two-thirds of the Group’s assets.
Following the sale of the mill in Madrid there is potential to achieve good
profitability in our paper business based entirely on fresh fiber. Our leading
position on the consumer board market and efficient mills offers a potential for
growth.”

The address to the AGM by Henrik Sjölund, President and CEO, is available on our
website www.holmen.com

For more information, please contact:
Ingela Carlsson, Communications Director, Holmen, tel. 46 702 12 97 12

This is information that Holmen AB is obliged to disclose under the Swedish
Securities Market Act and the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. The
information was submitted for publication on 13 April 2016 at 17.45 CET.
Holmen is a forest industry group that manufactures paperboard, printing paper
and sawn timber and runs forestry and energy production operations. In 2015
Holmen’s net sales were SEK 16 billion and the group has approx. 3,300
employees. Holmen’s shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, Large Cap. For more
information, visit www.holmen.com