Contract signed for a new store in Barkarby, Stockholm, Sweden

Clas Ohlson has signed a contract regarding a new store at Barkarby Gate,
Stockholm, Sweden. The retail space will amount to a total of 1.590 square
metres. The store’s catchment area comprises approximately 400,000 residents and
the store is scheduled to open in October 2014.
Future store establishments that have been contracted to date are: Vestby Arena,
Vestby, Norway in March 2013; Hansa Shopping Centre, Kalmar, Sweden in March
2013; Pasaati Shopping Centre, Kotka, Finland in May 2013; Spar Centre Shopping
area in Mariehamn, Åland, Finland in May 2013; Sogndal, Norway in spring 2013;
Heiane Shopping Centre in Stord, Norway in spring 2013; Vimpeln Shopping Centre
in Alingsås, Sweden in October 2013; Norra Backa Shopping area, Borlänge, Sweden
in October 2013; Mobilia Shopping Centre, Malmö, Sweden in October 2013; Orkdal,
Norway in November 2013; Mandal, Norway in winter 2014 and Kungens Kurva in
Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden in spring 2014; Barkarby Gate, Stockholm, Sweden in
October 2014.

During the 2012/13 financial year Clas Ohlson aim to establish 15-20 new stores.
With currently 172 stores and 13 contracted stores, Clas Ohlson will have a
total of 185 stores, of which 78 in Sweden, 66 in Norway, 29 in Finland and 12
in the UK.

For further information, please contact:

Bo Heyman, Director of Retail expansion: +46 (0)70-597 44 90.

John Womack, Director Information & IR: +46 (0)70-678 24 99.
Clas Ohlson AB is a Swedish chain store that sells, amongst other things,
hardware, electrical, multimedia, and home and leisure products. It is the
largest hardware chain in Scandinavia. The company was founded in 1918 by the
technically-minded Clas Ohlson (1895–1979), as a mail order business based in
the Swedish village of Insjön, Dalarna. Initially, only manuals and technical
literature were sold. He opened his first shop in Insjön in 1926 and there are
now stores throughout Sweden, as well as in Norway and Finland. In 2008, the
company opened its first store in the United Kingdom, in Croydon, south London.
There are now stores at the Arndale Centre in Manchester, at The Harlequin in
Watford, in Kingston upon Thames, Reading, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham,
Cardiff, Doncaster, Norwich and Newcastle.