Copenhagen, 2016-10-03 15:01 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Company announcement no. 60
DFDS A/S has in week 39 purchased 50,249 own shares for DKK 16.9m as part of the share buyback programme of DKK 350m launched on 18 August 2016 and expiring latest on 6 February 2017, ref. company announcement no. 50/2016 of 18 August 2016.
The accumulated share buyback of 249,569 shares for DKK 86.4m amounts to 24.7% of the programme.
| Period, 2016 | No. of shares | Average purchase price | Value, DKK |
| Accumulated week 37 | 199,320 | 348.6 | 69,475,709 |
| 26 September | 9,391 | 337.2 | 3,166,458 |
| 27 September | 8,695 | 337.0 | 2,930,054 |
| 28 September | 13,034 | 336.8 | 4,390,114 |
| 29 September | 8,695 | 335.6 | 2,917,861 |
| 30 September | 10,434 | 333.2 | 3,476,976 |
| Total week 38 | 50,249 | 336.0 | 16,881,464 |
| Accumulated week 38 | 249,569 | 346.0 | 86,357,174 |
Following the purchase, DFDS’ holding of own shares is 2,377,198 equal to 4.0% of the Company’s total no. of shares of 60,000,000. Excluding own shares, the no. of circulating shares is 57,622,802.
The share buyback programme is organised in compliance with the European Commis-sion Regulation 1052/2016 of 8 March 2016 (Safe Harbour regulation for share buy-backs).
Information about all transactions are available in the attachment.
Contact:
Torben Carlsen, CFO
+45 33 42 32 01
Søren Brøndholt Nielsen, IR
+45 33 42 33 59
