On 16 June 2008, Oy Karl Fazer Ab (“Fazer”) announced a public offer to the shareholders in Fazer Konfektyr Service AB (publ) (formerly Cloetta Fazer AB (publ)) (“Fazer Konfektyr”), to tender all their shares in Fazer Konfektyr to Fazer (the “Offer”). The Offer consisted of SEK 202 in cash and 0.92 shares of class B in Cloetta AB (publ) (“Cloetta”) for each share in Fazer Konfektyr. The Offer was declared unconditional by Fazer on 5 December 2008. The outcome of the Offer after the ordinary acceptance period was made public on 31 December 2008 and in connection therewith, the Offer was extended until 12 January 2009. No further extension will be made.

Following a calculation after the expiration of the extended acceptance period, it follows that shareholders in Fazer Konfektyr, representing in total 2,360,000 shares of class A and 9,032,561 shares of class B, corresponding to 47.23 per cent of the number of shares and 49.40 per cent of the votes in Fazer Konfektyr, have accepted...