Bergman & Beving AB has today acquired 2,800 class B shares in Bergman & Beving AB at an average price of SEK 152.18 per share. Bergman & Beving AB consequently now owns a total of 716,900 class B shares in the Company. This is equivalent to 2.5 percent of the total number of shares outstanding and 1.9 percent of the votes in Bergman & Beving AB. The purpose of holding repurchased shares in treasury is to secure the Company's obligations under the Group's incentive programmes. The total number of shares outstanding in Bergman & Beving AB, including the Company's holding of own shares in treasury, amounts to 28,436,416.

Stockholm, 3 October 2006

BERGMAN & BEVING AB (publ)

For further information contact: Stefan Wigren, President & CEO, Bergman & Beving AB, telephone +46-8-660 10 30