Ratos: Nomination Committee's proposal regarding Board of Directors

2015-02-20

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Ratos's Nomination Committee proposes that Karsten Slotte be elected as a new
member of the Board at the 2015 Annual General Meeting. Board member Lars Berg
has declined re-election. Otherwise, the Nomination Committee proposes re-
election of Board members Staffan Bohman, Arne Karlsson, Annette Sadolin,
Charlotte Strömberg, Jan Söderberg and Per-Olof Söderberg with Arne Karlsson as
Chairman of the Board.
Karsten Slotte, born 1956, is a Finnish citizen and holds a B.Sc. in Economics
from Hanken Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki.
He has had a long career in the Karl Fazer Group, most recently as President and
CEO 2007-2013 and prior to that as Managing Director of Fazer-Cloetta
2002-2006. Today he is a Director of Onninen, Fiskars, Onvest, Royal Unibrew and
Scandi Standard. He was previously a Director of Swedish Match, VARMA and
HKScan, among others.
A detailed presentation of the other proposed Board members can be found at
www.ratos.se.
The Nomination Committee comprises Jan Andersson (Chairman, representing
Swedbank Robur funds), Ulf Fahlgren (representing Akademiinvest), Arne Karlsson
(Chairman of Ratos's Board), Jan Söderberg (representing the Ragnar Söderberg
Foundation and his own and related parties' holdings), Maria Söderberg
(representing the Torsten Söderberg Foundation) and Per-Olof Söderberg
(representing his own and related parties' holdings).
The Nomination Committee's other proposals are presented in the Notice of the
Annual General Meeting, which will be held on Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 16.30
CET at Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre in Stockholm.
For further information, please contact:
Jan Andersson, Chairman of the Nomination Committee, +46 76 139 5500
Financial calendar from Ratos:
 Annual General Meeting 2015           16 April 2015
 Interim report January-March 2015     7 May 2015
 Interim report January-June 2015      14 August 2015
 Interim report January-September 2015 6 November 2015

Ratos is a private equity conglomerate. The company's mission is to maximise
shareholder value over time through the professional, active and responsible
exercise of its ownership role in primarily unlisted medium sized Nordic
companies. Ratos's holdings include AH Industries, Aibel, Arcus-Gruppen, Biolin
Scientific, Bisnode, DIAB, Euromaint, GS-Hydro, Hafa Bathroom Group, HENT, HL
Display, Inwido, Jøtul, KVD, Ledil, Mobile Climate Control, Nebula and Nordic
Cinema Group. Ratos is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and market capitalisation
amounts to approximately SEK 21 billion.