Novo Nordisk A/S - Status regarding Novo Nordisk's

Bagsværd, Denmark, 2 January 2017 - In continuation of the company's announcements dated 5 August 2016 and 28 October 2016 concerning planned share repurchase programmes, and pursuant to Section 204.25 of the New York Stock Exchange Listed Company Manual, this is to report that Novo Nordisk A/S (NYSE: NVO) and its wholly-owned affiliates on 31 December 2016 owned 45,667,252 of its own B shares of DKK 0.20, corresponding to a total nominal value of DKK 9,133,450 or 1.8% of the total share capital.

In the fourth quarter of 2016 a total of 16,190,604 B shares were repurchased, and zero B shares were disposed to employees in connection with employee incentive programmes.

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