The Board of Directors shall, according to the proposal, consist of eight members.

The Nomination Committee proposes re-election of Board members Kenneth Bengtsson, Mengmeng Du, Mathias Haid, Patrik Hofbauer, Håkan Lundstedt, Charlotte Strömberg and Göran Sundström.

Anne Thorstvedt Sjöberg has declared that she will not be standing for reelection. The Nomination Committee proposes that Stefan Sjöstrand be elected as a new member of the Board.

Stefan Sjöstrand, born 1968, is a market economist from the IHM Business School. Stefan Sjöstrand is the managing director of Skistar AB, has had a number of leading positions within the IKEA-group, and been the managing director of Weibull Trädgård (Nordic), Besthand and OLW. Stefan Sjöstrand is a board member of Derome AB and a board member of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.  

The Nomination Committee proposes that Kenneth Bengtsson be re-elected Chair of the Board of Directors.

• Kenneth Bengtsson, Chair of the Board of Clas Ohlson AB (publ)
• Malin Persson (Chair of the Nomination Committee), appointed by the Haid family
• Johan Ståhl, appointed by the Tidstrand family
• Richard Torgerson, appointed by Nordea Funds
• Fredrik Ahlin, appointed by If Skadeförsäkring AB

The Nomination Committee's work has been carried out in accordance with rules set out in the Swedish Corporate Governance Code.

For more information regarding the proposed Board members and the Nomination Committee's complete proposals, please see http://about.clasohlson.com.

For further information, please contact:
Malin Persson, Chair of the Nomination Committee, phone +46767242168