Press release

Composition of H&M’s Election Committee

According to the principles adopted for H&M’s Election Committee at the Annual General Meeting held on 3 May 2006, H&M is to have an Election Committee comprising one member representing each of the five biggest shareholders in terms of the number of votes as of 31 August 2006 plus the Chairman of the Board.

The Election Committee now comprises the following members:

Stefan Persson, Chairman of the Board of H&M, representing Stefan Persson
Lottie Tham, representing Lottie Tham
Tomas Nicolin, representing Alecta
Mats Lagerqvist, representing Robur fonder
Björn Lind, representing SEB fonder
Joachim Spetz, representing Handelsbanken fonder

The term of office of the Election Committee is until a new Election Committee is appointed.

Proposals from shareholders for the Election Committee may be sent either to individual members of the Election Committee or directly to the company for forwarding to the Committee, by e-mail to valberedningen@hm.com or alternatively to the following postal address: H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB, Attn. Carola Echarti-Ardéhn, Salénhuset/HO, 106 38 Stockholm, Sweden.

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