Annual General Meeting of shareholders in Hufvudstaden 2008


Annual General Meeting of shareholders in Hufvudstaden 2008

Hufvudstaden held its Annual General Meeting today at the Grand Hotel,
Vinterträdgården, in Stockholm. The Meeting adopted the Board of Directors'
proposal of a dividend of SEK 1.75 per share. The record date is Tuesday April
1, 2008 and the estimated date of divi-dend payment is Friday April 4, 2008.

Fredrik Lundberg, Claes Boustedt, Bengt Braun, Peter Egardt, Louise Lindh, Hans
Mertzig, Sten Peterson, Anna-Greta Sjöberg and Ivo Stopner were reelected to the
Board of Directors.

Fredrik Lundberg was reelected as Chairman of the Board.

The Meeting decided that a remuneration of SEK 1,575,000 be paid to the Board of
Directors, of which SEK 350,000 to the Chairman of the Board and SEK 175,000 to
each of the other Board members, apart from the President.

The Meeting decided in accordance with the Board of Directors' proposal to grant
the Board renewed authorization to acquire and assign the Company's own shares.
At present, the Company holds 2.4 per cent of the total number of issued shares.


Stockholm, March 27, 2008

HUFVUDSTADEN AB (publ)


Ivo Stopner




Questions will be answered by: 
Fredrik Lundberg, Chairman of the Board, telephone +46 8 463 06 00
Ivo Stopner, President, telephone +46 8 762 90 00.