Scandic Hotels Group AB: New Nomination Committee for Scandic Hotels Group

Regulatory News:

The Nomination Committee prior to Scandic’s Annual General Meeting 2017 is made up of Scandic’s three largest shareholders and the Chairman of the Board of Directors and is composed as follows:

- Joel Lindeman, Provobis AB, Chairman of the Nomination Committee.

- Stephan Leithner, Sunstorm Holding AB.

- Lars-Åke Bokenberger, AMF AB. - Vagn Sørensen, Chairman of Scandic Hotels Group.

Shareholders who would like to make suggestions to the Nomination Committee are welcome to email nominationcommittee@scandichotels.com by December 31, 2016 at the latest.

The Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, 10th of May, 2017 at Scandic Continental, Vasagatan 22, Stockholm, Sweden.

Scandic Hotels Group (publ) is required to publish this information in accordance with the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation and the Swedish Securities Market Act. The information was submitted for publication October 11, 2016 at 07:30 CET.

About Scandic                                                                  

Scandic is the largest hotel company in the Nordic region with 14,400 team members and a network of close to 230 hotels with about 44,000 hotel rooms in operation and under development. Scandic Friends is the biggest loyalty program in the Nordic hotel sector with 1.8 million members. Corporate responsibility has always been a part of Scandic’s DNA and Scandic has been named Best Hotel Brand in the Nordic countries (BDRC). Since December 2, 2015, Scandic has been listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. www.scandichotelsgroup.com

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