Johanna Kjellberg Appointed Vice President IT For KappAhl

Mölndal, Sweden, Jan 28, 2008 - (ABN Newswire) - KappAhl has appointed Johanna Kjellberg as Vice President Information Technology, and made her a new member of the management group. She worked for Volvo Information Technology AB from 2002 and before that was at Ericsson Sweden AB for eight years.

"There is almost as much product flow and logistics as fashion in the fashion industry. It's a question of getting the right product out at the right time to all 300 stores in four countries. KappAhl has complex and dynamic systems that place extreme demands on IT. Johanna's experience and expertise will be valuable assets to KappAhl in this process," says Christian W. Jansson, President and CEO of KappAhl.

Johanna Kjellberg was born in 1958 and studied industrial organisation and production at Chalmers University of Technology. She will take up her position in April.

For more information, please contact: Christian W. Jansson, President and CEO Tel. +46 (0)709 95 02 01 Johanna Kjellberg Tel. +46 (0)31 703 40 73



KappAhl is a leading Nordic fashion chain with approximately 3,800 employees and close to 300 stores in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Poland. KappAhl designs, markets and sells value-for-money fashion with a wide appeal, and focuses in particular on women aged 30 to 50 with a family. The head office and distribution centre are located in Mölndal, on the outskirts of Göteborg. In the 12-month period that ended on 31 August 2007, KappAhl's net sales were SEK 4.5 billion and the operating profit was SEK 618 million. KappAhl is listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm. Further information about the company is available at www.kappahl.com and financial information is available at www.kappahl.com/ir.

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