Strong result for the financial year

2/13/2003 5:15 AM EST

Atea:

Press release, Stockholm, 13-02-2003


Despite a weak market Atea, the Nordic region's leading one-stop
supplier of IT products and related services, recorded a profit for the
financial year 2002. Turnover totalled MSEK 6,061 (MSEK 6,013 in 2001).
The operating profit (EBITA) was MSEK 104 (MSEK 101). Profit before tax
for the financial year 2002 was MSEK 64,9 (MSEK 19.3 in the fourth
quarter of 2001*).

- We help our customers earn money by improving the efficiency of their
IT infrastructure and managing IT products. There is an increasing
interest in our way of providing a one-stop solution in this area, says
Thomas Keifer, CEO of Atea. He continues:

- Reducing IT costs will continue to be an extremely important issue for
most companies and organisations. During the year we have moved another
step up the value chain and reinforced our expertise as advisors and
efficiency experts in the field of IT infrastructure.

During the year Atea has made focused efforts in the Nordic region in a
number of prioritised business areas and market segments. These are
above all the public sector, license management, home PCs, and servers
and data storage products. These efforts have produced results. Despite
a weak Nordic market during the year, Atea has expanded significantly
and won market shares in several important segments.

About Atea

Atea is the leading Nordic company in sales, distribution and
integration of IT products and IT infrastructure. Atea's business
concept is to simplify and rationalise our customers´ management of IT-
products throughout the life cycle.

* Atea group (Atea Holding AB) was legally founded 1 October 2001. Atea
has 700 employees in the Nordic region. Atea is owned by WM-data, the
international venture capital company 3i and the management in Atea. CEO
is Thomas Keifer. Ateas turnover 2002 was 6061 MSEK.

See also www.atea.com
For further information please contact:

Atea
Thomas Keifer, CEO
Tel: +46 733-98 00 06
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Atea
Rolf Eriksson, CFO
Tel: +46 733-98 55 01
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Atea
Johan Scherlin, Marketing and Information
Tel: +46 733-98 43 10
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