Copenhagen, 2014-05-19 13:16 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Announcement no. 31
DFDS A/S (the Company) have in week 20 purchased 14,151 own shares equal to DKK 6.2m as part of the share buy-back programme of DKK 200m launched 28 February 2014, re. company announcement no. 8/2014.
The accumulated share buy-back amounts to 45.1% of the programme.
Purchase of own shares, week 20
| Period, 2014 | No. of shares | Average purchase price | Value, DKK |
| 12 May | 3,189 | 435 | 1,387,520 |
| 13 May | 4,544 | 433 | 1,969,731 |
| 14 May | 1,874 | 435 | 815,552 |
| 15 May | 4,544 | 436 | 1,981,753 |
| 16 May | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. |
| Total | 14,151 | 434,9 | 6,154,556 |
Following the purchase, DFDS’ holding of own shares is 779,818 equal to 5.9% of the Company’s total no. of shares of 13,300,000. Excluding own shares, the no. of shares is 12,520,182.
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