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Castellum Wins Best Annual Report Award among the Largest Companies Listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange

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Castellum (STO:CAST) has received the award for Best Annual Report 2015, among Swedish companies listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, Large Cap. “Top class that inspires” – one comment that stood out in the jury’s motivation.

The competition comprises a qualitative review, carried out on every company listed on the exchange. The prize awarded by Finforum and the jury consists of FAR (Swedish Institute of Authorized Public Accountants), Nasdaq, the Swedish Society of Financial Analysts and the Swedish Association of Communication Professionals.

It was the big-picture effect in Castellum’s Annual Report that inspired the “top class” jury assessment. Castellum’s financial pages, the risk section, and property valuation changes, in addition to descriptions of current real estate holdings, were highlighted as being particularly distinctive.

Overall, the jury considered that Castellum had produced an excellent Annual Report. Jury members noted it can serve as an inspiration to their industry colleagues as well as to colleagues from companies in entirely different sectors – whose ambition is to create an annual report which is state-of-the-art.

“It’s totally delightful to be accepting this prize for Best Annual Report among the Large-Cap companies, on behalf of Castellum – it inspires us to continuous development”, says Malin Engelbrecht, Head of Communication at Castellum.

This information is information that Castellum AB is obliged to make public pursuant to the Securities Markets Act. The information was submitted for publication at 10.00 am CET on November 23, 2016.

www.castellum.se

Castellum is one of the major listed real estate companies in Sweden. The fair value of the real estate portfolio amounts to approx. SEK 74 billion, and comprises of commercial properties for office, retail, warehouse and industrial with a total lettable area of approx. 4.7 million sq.m.

Castellum own and manage properties through one common brand in five geographical regions with strong local presence. The five geographical regions are: Central, North, Stockholm, West and Öresund.

In 2016, Castellum sustainability performance was awarded two top distinctions: First Prize for sustainability reporting in Europe from EPRA and Global Sector Leader, handed out by GRESB which means that Castellum is ranked first in the world within the office- and industrial-properties sector. Further Castellum has been selected as an index component of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), which includes the companies in all industries in the world with best performance in terms of sustainability.

The Castellum share is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm Large Cap.

Castellum AB (publ), Box 2269, SE-403 14 Gothenburg | Org nr/Corp Id no SE 556475-5550 | Phone +46 31 60 74 00 Fax +46 31 13 17 55

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23/11/2016

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