Options program for executive management at Getinge Industrier's US companies

Getinge Industrier has introduced an options program for executive management at its US subsidiaries.

The program covers around 20 executives and totals 310,000 options. The options program runs from 25 January 2000 to 25 January 2005. The option's strike price will be calculated as the difference between the initial value of SEK 97.55 and the rate in force on the day of redemption. The options holder has the right to redeem a fifth of the issued options for each full year of employment.

The Getinge Group has drawn up an insurance contract that fully covers any possible price surge during the options’ duration. The annual charge for the insurance cover is calcultated to SEK 500,000.

Getinge, 24 January 2000

Johan Malmquist
President and CEO

For further information please contact Ulf Grunander, CFO on tel. +46-35155500

You can also visit our website at: http://www.getinge.com

Getinge Industrier is a medical-technical Group and a world leader in the fields of health care, the pharmaceutical industry and laboratories, as well as hygiene and lifting systems for hospitals and geriatric care. The Group had sales in 1998 of SEK 4.3 billion and 3,700 employees.

GETINGE INDUSTRIER AB (publ.) Phone +46 35 15 55 00 VAT No SE556408503201
P.O. Box 69 Fax +46 35 549 52 Org.No. 556408-5032
SE-310 44 GETINGE www.getinge.com Registered office: Halmstad
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