Stockholm, March 31, 2017- Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) announced that Ambea AB (short name: AMBEA), a mid cap company within the health care sector, has started trading of its shares on the main market of Nasdaq Stockholm. Ambea is the 18 company to list at Nasdaq's Nordic markets* in 2017.

Ambea is present within care services and has around 14,000 employees. Ambea offers services within disabled care, individual and family care and elderly care, with a focus on residential care and own management. As of December 31, 2016, Ambea had approximately 6,200 beds and 1,300 school-/daily activity-placements in around 460 units across Sweden and Norway. For more information, please visitwww.ambea.com

'It is with great excitement Ambea now enters into a new phase by becoming listed on Nasdaq,' says Fredrik Gren, CEO of Ambea. 'We are very proud over Ambea and pleased with the high interest from new, long-term and professional investors. We view the listing, with broadened ownership and clear transparency requirements, as essential in our ambition to contribute to the development of care and have a positive view of the growth opportunities which have been made available by the IPO'.

'We are pleased to welcome Ambea as our fifth main market listing in Stockholm this year,' said Adam Kostyál, senior vice president and head of European listings at Nasdaq. 'Ambea will make a compelling addition to our growing health care sector, and we look forward to supporting them in the future.'

*Main markets and Nasdaq First North at Nasdaq Copenhagen, Nasdaq Helsinki, Nasdaq Iceland and Nasdaq Stockholm.

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