Copenhagen, 2012-10-09 08:06 CEST (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 |
58,364 |
|
21,711,198 |
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| 2 October 2012 | 576 | 373.98 | 215,412 | ||
| 3 October 2012 | 951 | 373.17 | 354,885 | ||
| 4 October 2012 | 881 | 372.88 | 328,507 | ||
| 5 October 2012 | 597 | 373.50 | 222,980 | ||
| 8 October 2012 | 694 | 370.31 | 256,992 | ||
| Accumulated under the programme |
62,063 |
372.04 |
23,089,974 |
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As of today, ALK's total holding of own shares is 419,780 shares of a nominal value of DKK 10, corresponding to 4.1% 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
