Nominating committee
The Nominating Committee shall comprise five members. The 2008 Annual General Meeting resolved that the Chairman of the Board shall be given a mandate to contact the company´s four largest shareholders and ask them each to appoint one representative to make up the Nominating Committee, together with the Chairman of the Board, for the period until a new Nominating Committee has been appointed in accordance with a mandate from the next Annual General Meeting.
In addition to Conny Karlsson (Chairman of the Board), William N. Booth (Wellington Management Company), Mads Eg Gensmann (Parvus Asset Management), Michael Allison (Morgan Stanley Investment Management) and Andy Brown (Cedar Rock Capital) have been members of the Nominating Committee before the Annual General Meeting 2008.
According to the instructions adopted by the Annual General Meeting, the Nominating Committee shall prepare and submit proposals to the Annual General Meeting regarding the election of the Chairman and other Members of the Board, the determination of Directors fees to be divided between the Chairman and other Members of the Board and any remuneration for committee work, the election of and payment of fees to auditors, when applicable, and the election of a Chairman of the Annual General Meeting.
The Nominating Committee submits opinions regarding how evaluation of the work of the Board of Directors should be organized and conducted. The completed evaluation is then reviewed by the Nominating Committee.
The Nominating Committee meets as often as necessary in order for it to be able to fulfil its obligations, although at least once a year. During 2007, the Nominating Committee held five meetings.
Shareholders who wish to submit its opinion, or put forward a proposal, to the Company´s Nominating Committee may do so to the Company´s general counsel Fredrik Peyron, Swedish Match AB, SE-118 85 Stockholm, Sweden, 
, Telephone +46 8 658 02 00.