As informed in Stock Exchange Announcement No. 5/2007 the Board of Directors of
Coloplast has decided to initiate a share buy-back programme in the order of
DKK 1 billion during 2007 and part of 2008.
A first buy-back programme within the scope of the authority will be exercised
in the period from 5 March 2007 to 15 August 2007. The volume of trading in own
shares will be limited to a maximum total market value of DKK 500 million. This
programme is expected to be followed by an additional programme in August 2007.
The maximum number of shares to be purchased in the company per daily market
session is 11,945, equivalent to 5% of the average volume of shares in the
company traded on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange in February 2007.
Every Monday (or every seventh market day if a Monday is not a business day)
all transactions executed under the buy-back programme will be publicly
disclosed by Coloplast.
Under the programme the following transactions have been executed during the
period 05.03.07-09.03.07 :
Date Number Average
of buying
shares price Amount DKK
05.03.07 11,000 465.46 5,120,060
06.03.07 11,500 469.45 5,398,675
07.03.07 11,900 472.07 5,617,633
08.02.07 9,500 476.06 4,522,570
09.03.07 11,500 472.42 5,432,830
Total 55,400 26,091,768
Henceforth, Coloplast owns 1,995,759 own B shares of DKK 5 equal to 4.16% of
the company's total share capital.
Further information
Investors and financial analysts
Jørgen Fischer Ravn
Head of Investor Relations
Tlf. 4911 1308
E-mail dkjfr@coloplast.com
Press and the media
Jens Tovborg Jensen
Head of Media Relations
Tel. + 45 3085 1922
E-mail: dkjto@coloplast.com
This information is available in a Danish and an English version. In case of
discrepancies, the Danish version will prevail.
