SHARE BUYBACK WEEK 49 2016


Copenhagen, 2016-12-12 13:24 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Announcement no. 74

DFDS A/S has in week 49 purchased 40,523 own shares for DKK 11.6m 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 740,764 shares for DKK 240.1m amounts to 68.6% of the programme.

 

Period, 2016 No. of shares Average  purchase price Value, DKK
Accumulated week 48 700,241 326.3 228,480,959
05 December 8,695 282.6 2,457,358
06 December 7,514 287.6 2,161,123
07 December 8,692 288.0 2,503,489
08 December 6,579 289.7 1,905,623
09 December 9,043 286.9 2,594,471
Total week 49 40,523 286.8 11,622,065
Accumulated week 49 740,764 324.1 240,103,024

   

Following the purchase, DFDS’ holding of own shares is 2,868,393 equal to 4.8% of the Company’s total no. of shares of 60,000,000. Excluding own shares, the no. of circulating shares is 57,131,607.

The share buyback programme is organised in compliance with the European Commission Regulation 1052/2016 of 8 March 2016 (Safe Harbour regulation for share buybacks).

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


Attachments

UK_OMX_NO_74_12_12_2016_Share_buyback.pdf UK platforms DFDS buy back Carnegie version w 49.pdf