Pursuant to section 29 of the Danish Securities Trading Act, Bang & Olufsen a/s hereby announce that the Board of Directors in Bang & Olufsen a/s, have received general proxies for the extraordinary general meeting to be held on Wednesday 4 March 2009. The proxies as mentioned above, represents a total of nominal DKK 12.526.790 of the issued share capital, and 1.252.679 votes, corresponding to 10,37 % of the total issued share capital, and 5,73 % of the total voting rights. After the Annual General Meeting the proxies will no longer be valid. Bang & Olufsen a/s will not send out a separate announcement regarding this. Kim Bo Hansen Director, Global Counsel