Owners

Largest shareholders
Name	Ownership %	Shares
Ax:son Johnson Antonia fam & company	46.3	24,270,066
Reitan Handel AS	10.1	5,300,000
Swedbank Robur Funds	4.7	2,452,265
Nordea Funds	2.4	1,244,828
SEB Funds	1.8	947,347
SHB Funds	1.1	553,597
Government of Norway	1.0	537,725
CIP-Resolutionasset	1.0	523,663
Lannebo Funds	1.0	508,557
Sax Göran family & company	0.9	460,024
Skandia Life Insurance	0.9	454,798
Avanza Pension Insurance AB	0.5	260,549
Oslo Pensjonsforsikring AS	0.5	252,100
Third Swedish National Pension Fund	0.5	244,018
Second Swedish National Pension Fund	0.4	213,293
Skandia Funds	0.4	187,100
Köhler Torsten	0.3	184,290
Höganäs Dagligvarumarkn AB	0.3	152,000
Folksam Insurance	0.2	127,222
KPA Pension Insurance AB	0.2	123,334
Summary others	25.7	13,470,902
Summary of shares		52,467,678
Source: SIS Ägarservice AB and Euroclear AB's public share register as of 2010-06-30

Share distribution
Number of shares	Share of owners, %	Percent of share capital
1 - 100	53.2	0.7
101 - 200	18.9	1.0
201 - 300	5.5	0.4
301 - 400	3.9	0.4
401 - 500	4.6	0.6
501 - 1,000	6.9	1.6
1,001 - 2,000	2.8	1.2
2,001 - 5,000	1.9	1.7
5,001 - 10,000	0.8	1.6
10,001 - 20,000	0.4	1.6
20,001 - 50,000	0.5	4.5
50,001 - 100,000	0.2	3.9
100,001 - 500,000	0.3	17.4
500,001 - 1,000,000	<0,1	6.9
1,000,001 - 5,000,000	<0,1	10.1
5,000,001 - 50,000,000	<0,1	46.2
Total	100.0	100.0
Total number of shareholders and shares:	14,263
Ownership distribution
		Percent of share capital
Foreign shareholders		25.8
Swedish shareholders		74.2
which of:
Institutions		5.0
Mutual Funds		11.7
Private persons		57.6
Ownership, geographical distribution
		Percent of share capital
Sweden		71.1
Norway		11.9
United States		5.5
United Kingdom		4.5
Luxembourg		1.1
France		0.5
Germany		0.4
Netherlands		0.4
Australia		0.2
United Arab Emirates		0.2
Summary others		4.1
Total		100.0
Source: SIS Ägarservice AB and Euroclear AB's public share register as of 2010-06-30

Dividend and dividend policy

Axfood's dividend policy is to pay a dividend corresponding to at least 50% of profit after tax.

For the 2009 financial year the dividend was SEK 10 per share (8), corresponding to a total of SEK 525 m, based on 52,467,678 shares in issue. The dividend corresponds to 66% of profit after tax for 2009.

Since 2005 Axfood has paid out an average of 95% of profit after tax in yearly dividends.