Copenhagen, 2016-10-10 11:37 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Company announcement no. 61
DFDS A/S has in week 40 purchased 56,122 own shares for DKK 18.6m 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 305,691 shares for DKK 105.0m amounts to 30.0% of the programme.
Period, 2016 | No. of shares | Average purchase price | Value, DKK |
Accumulated week 39 | 249,569 | 346.03 | 86,357,174 |
03 October | 10,907 | 332.00 | 3,621,100 |
04 October | 6,580 | 333.25 | 2,192,780 |
05 October | 11,695 | 330.17 | 3,861,287 |
06 October | 11,201 | 331.78 | 3,716,249 |
07 October | 15,739 | 332.77 | 5,237,432 |
Total week 40 | 56,122 | 331.93 | 18,628,848 |
Accumulated week 40 | 305,691 | 343.44 | 104,986,022 |
Following the purchase, DFDS’ holding of own shares is 2,433,320 equal to 4.1% of the Company’s total no. of shares of 60,000,000. Excluding own shares, the no. of circulating shares is 57,566,680.
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