Copenhagen, 2014-03-10 11:53 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Announcement no. 11
DFDS A/S (the Company) have in week 9/10 purchased 22,171 own shares equal to DKK 10.0m as part of the share buy-back programme of DKK 200m launched 28 February 2014, re. company announcement no. 8/2014.
The share buy-back amounts to 5.0% of the programme.
Purchase of own shares, week 9/10
| Period, 2014 | No. of shares | Average purchase price | Value, DKK |
| 28 February | 4,544 | 449.0 | 2,040,272 |
| 3 March | 4,544 | 438.1 | 1,990,558 |
| 4 March | 4,544 | 458.6 | 2,084,000 |
| 5 March | 2,600 | 460.2 | 1,196,410 |
| 6 March | 4,544 | 457.3 | 2,077,964 |
| 7 March | 1,395 | 454.6 | 634,181 |
| Total | 22,171 | 452.1 | 10,023,385 |
Following the purchase, DFDS’ holding of own shares is 601,534 equal to 4.5% of the Company’s total no. of shares of 13.3m. Excluding own shares, the no. of shares is 12.7m.
The share buy-back programme is organised in compliance with the EU Commission’s Regulation 2273/2003 of 22 December 2003 (Safe Harbour regulation for share buy-backs).
Torben Carlsen, CFO +45 33 42 32 01 Søren Brøndholt Nielsen, IR +45 33 42 33 59