SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 6-K

Report of Foreign Issuer

~~Persuant~~Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Report on Form 6-K dated ~~August~~April 2824th, ~~2006~~2007

Swedish Match AB

(Translation of Registrant’s Name into English)

Rosenlundsgatan 36

S-118 85 Stockholm, Sweden

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.)

40-F.)

Form 20-F X Form 40-F

(Indicate by check whether the ~~registrant~~ registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.)

furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of

1934.)

Yes No X

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2Enclosure: Annual General Meeting of Swedish Match AB (bpubl)~~;82- )~~

Enclosure: Swedish Match Extraordinary shareholders meeting

SIGNATURES

~~Persuant~~Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

	~~Swedish Match AB~~	Swedish Match AB
Date: August 28. 2006	By:	/s/ Bertil Raihle
Date: April 24th, 2007	By:	/s/ Bertil Raihle
		Bertil Raihle
		Vice President Corporate Control

LOGO

PRESS RELEASE

28 August, 2006

Stockholmsbörsen: SWMA

~~Swedish~~PRESS ~~Match~~RELEASE ~~Board of Directors Calls for Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting~~

~~The Board of Directors of Swedish Match has decided to call an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting on December~~23 ~~4th 2006. The meeting will be held at the Company’s headquarters in Stockholm. At the shareholders meeting it is proposed that a decision will be made to reduce the share capital by cancelling 20~~April,~~596,181~~ ~~repurchased~~2007 ~~shares equivalent to 6.9 percent of the number of shares of Swedish Match and to restore the share capital through a bonus issue without issuing new shares.~~

ItSwedish ~~will~~Match ~~further~~shareholders beapprove ~~proposed~~dividend ~~that~~hike ~~the Board of Directors gets a renewed mandate~~ to ~~repurchase shares from the extraordinary meeting of the shareholders until the next Annual General Meeting in April 2007~~2.50 SEK

~~Additional~~Major items, ifapproved ~~any,~~by today’s ~~will~~Annual beGeneral ~~described~~Meeting ininclude: ~~the formal notice of the agenda for the meeting which will be published no later than November 6th, 2006.~~

~~Swedish~~• ~~Match~~Dividend iswill aincrease ~~unique~~from ~~company with its range of market-leading brands in the product areas of snuff, cigars, pipe tobacco and chewing tobacco – tobacco’s niche products – as well as matches and lighters~~2.10 ~~The~~SEK/share ~~Group’s~~to ~~global operations generated sales of 13,153 MSEK for the twelve month period ending June 30, 2006~~2.50 ~~Swedish Match shares are listed on Stockholmsbörsen (SWMA).~~ SEK

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Election of Conny Karlsson as new Chairman of the Board

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Election of Charles A. Blixt and John P. Bridendall to the Board

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Mandate to repurchase up to 10 percent of all shares in the Company prolonged

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13 million shares repurchased by the Company are authorized to be withdrawn

At the Annual General Meeting of Swedish Match on 23 April, it was resolved in accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors to pay a dividend per share of 2.50 SEK. The record date for the dividend entitlement was set at 26 April, 2007. The dividend is expected to be distributed on 2 May, 2007, through VPC.

Shareholders have re-elected Andrew Cripps, Sven Hindrikes, Arne Jurbrant, Conny Karlsson, Kersti Strandqvist and Meg Tivéus to the Board of Directors, and elected Charles A. Blixt and John P. Bridendall as new members to the Board of Directors. Conny Karlsson was elected new Chairman of the Board.

Furthermore, the shareholders approved a mandate to repurchase up to 10 percent of all shares in the Company for a maximum amount of 3,000 MSEK. In addition, the shareholders also approved an authorization for a reduction of 13,000,000 previously repurchased shares, with a simultaneous capitalization issue in an amount corresponding to the number of cancelled shares or 18,084,644.37 SEK. The shareholders also approved that the reduction will be allocated to a fund for use in repurchasing the Company’s own shares.

In addition, shareholders approved all other proposals made by the Board of Directors and the Nominating Committee as outlined in the published notice of the Annual General Meeting for Swedish Match AB.

Swedish Match is a global Group of companies with a broad assortment of market-leading brands in smokeless tobacco products, cigars, pipe tobacco and lights products. The Group’s global operations generated sales of 12,911 MSEK for the twelve month period ending December 31, 2006. Swedish Match shares are listed on Stockholmsbörsen (SWMA).

Swedish Match AB (publ), SE-118 85 Stockholm

Visiting address: Rosenlundsgatan 36, Telephone: +46 8 658 02 00

Corporate Identity Number: 556015-0756

www.swedishmatch.com

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