VOTING AGREEMENT

THIS VOTING AGREEMENT (this AGREEMENT), dated as of April 12, 2007 (the Effective Date), by and among New Wave Group AB (Publ) (Parent) and Ernest R. Johnson, a United States citizen (Stockholder) and a stockholder of Cutter & Buck Inc., a Washington corporation (the Company).  All references to the date hereof shall mean the Effective Date. Other capitalized terms used but not defined in this Agreement have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Merger Agreement.

RECITALS:

WHEREAS, the Company, Parent and Newport Acquisition Corporation, a Washington corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (Merger Sub), are entering into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended from time to time, the Merger Agreement), dated as of the Effective Date, providing for, among other things, the merger of Merger Sub with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the Merger);

WHEREAS, as of the date hereof, Stockholder is the Beneficial Owner (as defined below) of, and has the sole right to vote and dispose of, that number of shares of common stock (the Company Shares) of the Company set forth beside Stockholders name on Schedule A hereto; and

WHEREAS, concurrently with the effectiveness of the Merger Agreement, and as a condition and inducement to the willingness of Parent and Merger Sub to enter into the Merger Agreement and incur the obligations set forth therein, Parent has required that Stockholder enter into this Agreement.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained herein, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Agreement are used in this Agreement with the meanings given to such terms in the Merger Agreement. In addition, for purposes of this Agreement:

Affiliate means, with respect to any specified Person, any Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, the Person specified. For purposes of this Agreement, with respect to Stockholder, Affiliate shall not include the Company and the Persons that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, are controlled by the Company.  For the avoidance of doubt, no officer or director of the Company shall be deemed an Affiliate of another officer or director of the Company by virtue of his or her status as an officer or director of the Company.

Alternative Transaction means (i) any transaction of the type described in the definition of Acquisition Proposal contained in the Merger Agreement other than the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and (ii) any other action, agreement or transaction that would reasonably be expected to hinder, delay, impede, interfere, postpone, discourage, adversely affect or frustrate the consummation of the transaction contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

Beneficially Owned or Beneficial Ownership with respect to any securities means having beneficial ownership of such securities (as determined pursuant to Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, disregarding the phrase within 60 days in paragraph (d) (1) (i) thereof), including pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding, whether or not in writing. without duplicative counting of the same securities, securities Beneficially Owned by a Person shall include securities Beneficially Owned by (i) all controlled Affiliates of such Person, and (ii) all other Persons with whom such Person would constitute a group within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules promulgated thereunder.

Beneficial Owner with respect to any securities means a Person that has Beneficial Ownership of such securities.

Person means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, trust or any other entity or organization, including any Governmental Entity.

Subject Shares means, with respect to Stockholder, without duplication, (i) the Company Shares owned by Stockholder on the date hereof as described on Schedule A, and (ii) any additional Company Shares acquired by Stockholder or over which the Stockholder acquires Beneficial Ownership from and after the date hereof, whether pursuant to existing stock option agreements or otherwise.

Transfer means, with respect to a security, the sale, transfer, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, assignment or disposition of such security or the Beneficial Ownership thereof, the offer to make such sale, transfer or other disposition, and each option, agreement, arrangement or understanding, whether or not in writing, to effect any of the foregoing. As a verb, Transfer shall have a correlative meaning.

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