Charlotte Luckstadt Nielsen, employee-elected member of the Board of Directors of Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S, has resigned from the Board of Directors as a result of the termination of her employment with the Group upon the closing of the Group's factory in Nykobing Falster, Denmark. Mogens Olsen, since April 2011 an alternate employee-elected member of the Board of Directors, has succeeded Ms. Nielsen as member of the Board of Directors.