Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting of Hexagon - information brochure

Hexagon AB (publ) has prepared an information brochure in offering to the shareholders of Hexagon supplementary information before the Extraordinary Sharehold-ers' Meeting concerning the tender offer made by Hexagon to the shareholders of the Swiss publicly listed company Leica Geosystems Holdings AG. The Extraordinary Shareholders' meeting will be held as previously announced on 15 September 2005 at 5 p.m.CET in Näringslivets hus, Storgatan 19 in Stockholm, Sweden.

The information brochure will be held available at the Company's website www.hexagon.se. It can be ordered through the Company at no. +46 8 601 26 20 and it will also be made available at the Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting. As from 2 September 2005, the information brochure will be sent to the shareholders who have an address known to the Company.

Hexagon's two major shareholders, Mr Melker Schörling and Mr Maths O. Sundqvist, who directly or indirectly holds 51.5 per cent and 10.8 per cent of the voting rights in Hexagon respectively, are supportive of the tender offer to the shareholders of Leica as well as to the proposals put forward by the Board of Directors in Hexagon to the Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting.

For further information, please contact:

Ola Rollén, CEO and President
Hexagon AB
Tel: 08 - 601 26 20

Håkan Halén, CFO
Hexagon AB
Tel: 08 - 601 26 20