Evaluation of the Board

The Board of Directors must ensure that its work is evaluated annually.

During the autumn of 2010, the Board’s work was evaluated with the assistance of an independent consulting company. The Nominating Committee was informed of the result of the evaluation.

Composition of the Board of Directors and committees and number of meetings and attendance during 2010:

Table data
	Board of Directors	Audit Committee	Compensation Committee
Total number of meetings	8	5	3
Conny Karlsson (Chairman)	8		3
Charles A. Blixt	8		3
Andrew Cripps (Deputy Chairman)	8	5
Karen Guerra	8		2
Arne Jurbrant	8		1
Kersti Strandqvist	8	4
Meg Tivéus	8	5
Kenneth Ek	8
Eva Larsson	7
Joakim Lindström	8
Håkan Johansson	7
Eva Norlén-Moritz (from April 2010)	6
Gert-Inge Rang	8
Eeva Kazemi Vala (until April 2010)	2

Independence of Board members

All of the Board members are considered to be independent under the rules of the Swedish Code of Corporate Governance in relation to the Company’s major shareholders and in relation to the management and the Company.

Page updated Apr 4, 2011

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Addresses

Stockholm: Swedish Match AB
Corporate Headquarters
Box 7179
SE-103 88 Stockholm; Visiting address:
Västra Trädgårdsgatan 15; Phone: +46 8 658 0200; Fax: +46 8 720 7656; contactus@swedishmatch.com