Share Buy-Back in ALK - week 1 Copenhagen Stock Exchange:ALK B

Share Buy-Back in ALK - week 1

January 02, 2013 03:17 | Source: ALK-Abelló

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Copenhagen, 2013-01-02 09:17 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

On 14 May 2012, ALK-Abelló A/S (“ALK”) initiated a share buy-back programme, cf. company announcement No. 14/2012. According to the programme, ALK will in the period from 15 May 2012 to 4 February 2013 purchase own shares for a maximum amount of DKK 75 million and no more than 200,000 shares corresponding to 2.0% of the current share capital of ALK. The share buy-back programme is initiated and structured in compliance with the EU Commission Regulation No. 2273/2003 of 22 December 2003 and thus ALK will publish the accumulated share buy-back under the programme every week.

The following transactions have been made under the programme:

	No of shares bought back	Average transaction price	Amount (DKK)
Accumulated, last announcement	92,835		34,583,492
18 December 2012	30	388.17	11,645
19 December 2012	0	0.00	0
20 December 2012	996	390.35	388,789
21 December 2012	500	389.33	194,665
27 December 2012	867	390.15	338,263
28 December 2012	1,875	389.12	729,600
Accumulated under the programme	97,103	373.28	36,246,454

As of today, ALK's total holding of own shares is 454,820 shares of a nominal value of DKK 10, corresponding to 4.5% of the total number of issued shares of 10,128,360.

ALK-Abelló A/S

Jens Bager
President and CEO

For further information please contact:
Per Plotnikof, Investor Relations Director, tel. +45 4574 7527