Hexagon acquires company in fleet management machine control

Hexagon acquires company in fleet management machine control

Hexagon has acquired all outstanding shares in the Swedish software company
Viewserve AB (www.viewserve.com). 

Viewserve is a well-established service and software company offering a web
based fleet management system to the construction market. Viewserve's web-based
GPS platform facilitates monitoring of vehicles and work activities, and can be
used to notify individual consumers about work carried out. Collected
information can also be used when investigating accidents and for insurance
issues.

Viewserve gives the customer real time and historic information presented
geographically and statistically which enables the customer to effectively
optimize the utilization of resources and maximize profitability.

Viewserve was founded in 2005 and today employs 12 people. The company is
expected to have a turnover of approximately 7 MSEK in 2008 and is expected to
continue to grow at double digit rates in the years to come.

Viewserve will be fully consolidated as of 23 June 2008.


For further information please contact Sara Kraft, Investor Relations, at +46 8
601 26 27, ir@hexagon.se

Hexagon AB is a global measurement technologies company with strong market
positions. Hexagon's mission is to develop and market leading technologies and
services to measure in one, two or three dimensions, to position and update
objects and to time processes. The group has about 8 000 employees in 35
countries and net sales of about 12 000 MSEK. Read more at www.hexagon.se.