As the company's former chairman, Mr Palle Svejstrup, retired at the annual general meeting earlier today, the board of directors afterwards elected Mr. Ebbe Malte Iversen as the new chairman. Ebbe M. Iversen is 58 years old, an engineer, CEO of Per Aarsleff A/S, Aarhus, and chairman of the Danish Construction Association's Export Devision as well as the Danish Project Export Network, Copenhagen. He is also a board member of DHI Water & Environment, Hørsholm. Mr Frank Uhrenholt, who has been a board member since 1995, was elected vice chairman.