With reference to the authorization given by the annual shareholders meeting held on April 2(nd) 2009 to offer key employees the opportunity to purchase warrants as a part of a long term incentive program the Company has now issued 169 500 new shares called on by the holder of the warrants. The subscription price for each new share is 90.20 SEK and the share capital of the Company will hereby increase by 16,950 SEK. The total number of shares issued is 169,500 where after the total number of shares is 11,322,400. The total dilution as a result from the share issue is 1.5 %. For more information please contact: CFO Gunnar Högberg, telephone: +46-35 17 29 95 CEO Staffan Dahlström, telephone: +46-35 17 29 01 HMS Networks AB (Publ) is a world-leading supplier of communication technology for industrial automation. Sales for the last twelve months totaled SEK 384 million. Over 90% of these sales were to customers located outside Sweden. All product development and parts of the manufacturing are performed at the head office in Halmstad. Sales offices are located in Tokyo, Beijing, Karlsruhe, Chicago, Milan, Mulhouse, Pune, Coventry and Copenhagen. HMS has 240 employees and produces network interface cards and Gateways to interconnect different networks under the trademark Anybus® and products for remote management under the trademark Netbiter®. HMS is listed on NASDAQ-OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm in the category Small Cap, Information Technology. [HUG#1620701]