| company announcement NO. 1 |
DFDS A/S has in week 52 purchased 27,351 own shares for DKK 8.8m 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 839,264 shares for DKK 270.7m amounts to 77.3% of the programme.
| Period, 2016 | No. of shares | Average purchase price | Value, DKK |
| Accumulated week 51 | 811,913 | 322.6 | 261,904,720 |
| 26 December | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 27 December | 6,956 | 318.9 | 2,218,105 |
| 28 December | 6,956 | 320.0 | 2,225,813 |
| 29 December | 6,483 | 320.9 | 2,080,539 |
| 30 December | 6,956 | 321.1 | 2,233,488 |
| Total week 52 | 27,351 | 320.2 | 8,757,945 |
| Accumulated week 52 | 839,264 | 322.5 | 270,662,665 |
Following the purchase, DFDS' holding of own shares is 2,966,893 equal to 4.9% of the Company's total no. of shares of 60,000,000. Excluding own shares, the no. of circulating shares is 57,033,107.
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
This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5 -12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
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