PR Newswire | Apr 30, 2021 02:48AM EDT

04/30 01:47 CDT

Swedish Match: Interim Report January - March 2021 STOCKHOLM, April 30, 2021

STOCKHOLM, April 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --

Impressive Q1 performance across all product segments

* Double-digit sales and operating profit growth across all product segments in local currencies.

* For the Smokefree product segment, continued momentum for ZYN drove strong US performance and in Scandinavia good underlying development was further enhanced by timing effects on shipments and COVID-19 related channel mix effects.

* For Cigars, record volumes, sales and operating profit on the back of strong category growth and improved price mix.

* No major operational COVID-19 related disruptions and COVID-19 related effects in aggregate are estimated to have elevated the reported financial performance.

* In local currencies, sales increased by 23 percent for the first quarter. Reported sales increased by 11 percent to 4,455 MSEK (4,029).

* In local currencies, operating profit from product segments1) increased by 40 percent for the first quarter. Reported operating profit from product segments increased by 26 percent to 2,092 MSEK (1,659).

* Operating profit, which includes a settlement income of 300 MSEK related to a previously ongoing arbitration concerning nicotine pouches, amounted to 2,354 MSEK (1,601) for the first quarter.

* Profit after tax amounted to 1,780 MSEK (1,168) for the first quarter.

* Earnings per share increased by 57 percent to 11.25 SEK (7.18) for the first quarter. Adjusted earnings per share2) increased by 36 percent to 9.74 SEK (7.18) for the first quarter.

1) Excludes Other operations and larger one-time items.

2) Excludes larger one-time items net of tax.

For the full report:www.swedishmatch.com/Investors/Financial-reports/Interim-reports/

Swedish Match telephone conference A telephone conference will be held today, Friday, April 30 at 2:00 p.m. (CET), (1:00 p.m. UK time). At this time we will review and comment on the results. Participants will include Lars Dahlgren, Anders Larsson, and Emmett Harrison. Listen to the telephone conference: www.swedishmatch.com/Investors/Presentations/Webcasts-and-audiocasts/ Telephone conference presentation: www.swedishmatch.com/Investors/Presentations/ Contacts: Lars Dahlgren, President and Chief Executive Officer Phone +46 8 658 0441 Anders Larsson, Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President Group Finance Phone +46 10 139 3006 Emmett Harrison, Senior Vice President Investor Relations Phone +46 70 938 0173 This information is information that Swedish Match AB (publ) is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation and the Securities Markets Act. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out above, at 08.15 a.m. CET on April 30, 2021. This information was brought to you by Cision http://news.cision.com https://news.cision.com/swedish-match/r/interim-report-january--march-2021,c3337411 The following files are available for download: https://mb.cision.com/Main/2004/3337411/1410472.pdf Swedish Match Q1 2021 ENG

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