Interim report January - September 2007

Interim report January - September 2007

• Total revenues for the third quarter increased by 3.0 per cent compared with
the year-earlier period and amounted to SEK 625.8 M (607.5). Revenues for the
period increased by 4.2 per cent to SEK 1,897.5 M (1,820.3).

• EBIT for the third quarter increased by 10.8 per cent compared with the
year-earlier period and amounted to SEK 78.2 M (70.6). EBIT for the period
amounted to SEK 207.4 M (146.0).

• Income after financial items increased by 234 per cent for the third quarter
and amounted to SEK 215.5 M (64.5). Income after financial items for the period
amounted to SEK 350.0 M (132.2). Income after financial items for the third
quarter as well as for the period includes an effect from the sale of the
Group's property portfolio totalling 133.3 M and positive currency effects
totalling SEK 2.0 M (neg: 4.2) for the third quarter and SEK 13.2 M (neg: 7.6)
for the period.

• EBIT margin for the third quarter increased to 12.5 per cent (11.6) and for
the period to 10.9 per cent (8.0).

• Profit after tax for the third quarter increased by 305 per cent and amounted
to SEK 186.6 M (46.1). Profit after tax for the period amounted to SEK 282.5 M
(93.9). Adjusted for the property transaction, profit after tax amounted to SEK
55.6 M for the quarter and SEK 151.5 M for the period.

• Earnings per share before and after dilution for the third quarter increased
by 343 per cent and amounted to SEK 5.94 (1.34) and for the period to SEK 8.90
(2.75).

• Earnings from the sale of the Group's property portfolio were taken up as
revenue during the third quarter with a positive earnings effect, which
preliminarily amounts to SEK 131 M after tax. Final settlement will take place
in the fourth quarter.



For further information, please contact:
Håkan Lundstedt, President and CEO Mekonomen AB, Tel. +46(0)8-464 00 10 or
Gunilla Spongh, CFO Mekonomen AB, Tel. +46(0)8-464 00 80


Mekonomen is a spare parts chain with its own wholesale operation and a
nationwide retail network of wholly owned and cooperating stores in Sweden,
Norway and Denmark. Group revenues mainly consist of sales to service centres
and motorists via wholly owned stores, and wholesale operations aimed at
cooperating stores.
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