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Annual General Meeting 2011

16 May 2011, 12:00 PM
Investment  AB Kinnevik (publ)  ("Kinnevik") today announced  that the Company's
Annual  General Meeting (AGM) held today voted to support all of the resolutions
proposed to the AGM.

The  AGM  re-elected  Vigo  Carlund,  Wilhelm Klingspor, Erik Mitteregger, Allen
Sangines-Krause  and Cristina Stenbeck  as Board Directors.  Dame Amelia Fawcett
and Tom Boardman were elected as new Board Directors. The AGM further re-elected
Cristina Stenbeck as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

The  AGM resolved in accordance with the proposal from the Board of Directors to
distribute  a cash dividend to the  shareholders for 2010 of SEK 4,50 per share.
The  record  date  for  the  dividend  is  to  be Thursday 19 May 2011 and it is
expected that the dividend will be distributed by Euroclear Sweden AB on Tuesday
24 May 2011.

The AGM also resolved to:

  * Adopt a performance based incentive plan (the "Plan"). The Plan includes in
    total approximately 28 senior executives and other key employees within the
    Kinnevik Group. In order to participate in the Plan, the participants are
    required to own shares in Kinnevik. These shares can either be shares
    already held or shares purchased on the market in connection with the
    notification to participate in the Plan. Thereafter the participants will be
    granted, by the Company free of charge, rights to retention shares and
    performance shares on the Plan's terms. The proposed Plan has the same
    structure as the plan that was adopted at the 2010 Annual General Meeting.

·               To use 80,000 Class C shares already held by the Company for
such purposes and further that the Annual General Meeting authorises the Board
to resolve on a directed issue of 90,000 Class C shares to Nordea Bank AB. The
purpose of the authorisation and the reason for the disappli­cation of the
shareholders' preferential rights in connection with the issue of shares is to
ensure delivery of class B shares to participants under the Plan.

·               Authorise the Board, during the period until the next Annual
General Meeting, to repurchase its own class C shares. The repurchase may only
be effected through a public offer directed to all holders of class C shares and
shall comprise all outstanding class C shares. The purchase may be effected at a
purchase price corresponding to not less than SEK 0.10 and not more than SEK
0.11. Payment for the class C shares shall be made in cash. The purpose of the
repurchase is to ensure the delivery of class B shares under the Plan.

·               Transfer 170,000 class C shares, following reclassification into
class B shares, to participants in accordance with the terms of the Plan.

·               Authorise the Board of Directors to pass a resolution on one or
more occasions for the period up until the next Annual General Meeting on
repurchasing so many Class A and/or Class B shares that the Company's holding
does not at any time exceed 10 percent of the total number of shares in the
Company. The repurchase of shares shall take place on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm
and may only occur at a price within the share price interval registered at that
time, where share price interval means the difference between the highest buying
price and lowest selling price.

  * Approve the following procedure for preparation of the election of the Board
    of Directors and auditor. The work of preparing a proposal on the directors
    of the Board and auditor, in the case that an auditor should be elected, and
    their remuneration as well as the proposal on the Chairman of the Annual
    General Meeting of 2012 shall be performed by a Nomination Committee. The
    Nomination Committee will be formed during October 2011 in consultation with
    the largest shareholders of the Company as per 30 September 2011. The
    Nomination Committee will consist of at least three members representing the
    largest shareholders of the Company. The Nomination Committee is appointed
    for a term of office commencing at the time of the announcement of the third
    quarter report in 2011 and ending when a new Nomination Committee is formed.
  * Approve the proposal by the Board of Directors to amend the Articles of
    Association to the effect that the term of office for the company's auditor
    will continue to be four years.

At the constituent meeting of the Board of Directors following the AGM, an Audit
Committee, a Remuneration Committee and a New Ventures Committee were appointed.
Erik  Mitteregger  was  appointed  as  Chairman  of  the Audit Committee and Tom
Boardman,  Wilhelm Klingspor and Allen Sangines-Krause were appointed members of
the   Audit   Committee.   Wilhelm  Klingspor  was  appointed  Chairman  of  the
Remuneration  Committee and Dame  Amelia Fawcett, Erik  Mitteregger and Cristina
Stenbeck  were  appointed  members  of  the  Remuneration Committee. Mia Brunell
Livfors  was appointed Chairman of the  New Ventures Committee and Tom Boardman,
Dame  Amelia  Fawcett,  Erik  Mitteregger,  Allen  Sangines-Krause  and Cristina
Stenbeck were appointed members of the  New Ventures  Committee.







For further information, visit www.kinnevik.seor contact:

Mia Brunell Livfors, President and Chief Executive Officer +46 (0)8 562 000 00

Torun Litzén, Director Investor Relations                  +46 (0)8 562 000 83

                                                           +46 (0)70 762 00 83


Kinnevik  is required to  make public the  information in this  press release in
accordance  with the  Securities Market  Act. The  information was  released for
publication on 16 May, 2011 at 12.00 (CET).



Kinnevik was founded in 1936 and thus embodies more than seventy years of
entrepreneurship under the same group of principal owners. Kinnevik's objective
is to increase shareholder value, primarily through net asset value growth. The
company's holdings of growth companies are focused around seven comprehensive
business sectors; Paper & Packaging, Telecom & Services, Media, Online,
Microfinancing and Renewable energy. Kinnevik has a long history of investing in
emerging markets which has resulted in a considerable exposure to consumer
sectors in these markets. Kinnevik plays an active role on the Boards of its
holdings.

The Kinnevik's class A and class B shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX
Stockholm's list for large cap companies, within the financial and real estate
sector. The ticker codes are KINV A and KINV B.




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