Prospect, pdf - the SKF site for the capital market

2011 2010 2009
Total 42,886 40,206 38,530
Registered number of employees by division*
2011 2010 2009
Industrial Division 20,264 20,018 17,906
Service Division 6,093 5,741 5,672
Automotive Division 14,451 14,474 13,480
Total 40,808 40,233 37,058
*Previously published amounts have been restated to conform to the current Group structure in 2011.
The structural changes include business units being moved between the divisions and between other
operations/Group activities and divisions.
Most of SKF's employees are unionised. The right of all employees to form and join trade unions is
expressed in the SKF Code of Conduct. The Group considers its relationship with its employees to be
good.
Major Shareholders
The following table sets forth, as of 31 July 2012, the largest shareholders known by SKF to be owners
of any class of SKF's voting securities. The information in this table is based on information furnished to
SKF by SIS Ägarservice AB and Euroclear Sweden AB.
1
The ten largest
shareholders according
to voting rights
Foundation Asset
Management AB
Number of
A shares
Number of
B shares
49
In % of
voting
rights
In % of
share
capital
21,000,000 37,850,000 29.5 12.9
2 Alecta 2,192,404 16,372,200 4.6 4.1
3 Swedbank Robur Funds 2,043,947 16,678,025 4.4 4.1
4 Skandia Life Insurance 3,097,436 1,461,890 3.9 1.0
5 AFA Insurance 1,384,900 3,696,989 2.1 1.1
6 AMF Insurance & Funds 0 17,085,390 2.0 3.8
7 SEB Trygg Life Insurance 1,655,224 82,576 2.0 0.4
8 SEB Funds 381,142 9,482,656 1.6 2.2
9 PRI Pensionsgaranti 927,096 284,198 1.1 0.3
10 Government of Norway 0 9,508,261 1.1 2.1