Copenhagen, 2015-02-09 11:42 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Announcement no. 09
DFDS A/S has in week 6 purchased 12,048 own shares for DKK 7.9m as part of the share buy-back programme of DKK 200m launched on 9 September 2014 and expiring latest on 30 June 2015, re. company announcement no. 65/2014 of 8 September 2014.
The accumulated share buy-back of 243,152 shares for DKK 128.5m amounts to 64.2% of the programme.
| Purchase of own shares, week 6 | |||
| Period, 2015 | No. of shares | Average purchase price | Value, DKK |
| Accumulated week 5 | 231,104 | 521.7 | 120,574,248 |
| 02 February | 1,748 | 639.7 | 1,118,178 |
| 03 February | 893 | 652.5 | 582,665 |
| 04 February | 3,829 | 651.4 | 2,494,249 |
| 05 February | 3,510 | 665.2 | 2,334,957 |
| 06 February | 2,068 | 655.7 | 1,355,946 |
| Total week 6 | 12,048 | 654.5 | 7,885,995 |
| Accumulated week 6 | 243,152 | 528.3 | 128,460,243 |
Following the purchase, DFDS’ holding of own shares is 559,645 equal to 4.4% of the Company’s total no. of shares of 12,650,000. Excluding own shares, the no. of circulating shares is 12,090,355.
The share buy-back programme is organised in compliance with the EU Commission’s Regulation (EC) No 2273/2003 (Safe Harbour regulation for share buy-backs).
Contact persons Torben Carlsen, CFO +45 33 42 32 01
Søren Brøndholt Nielsen, IR +45 33 42 33 59