| company announcement no 82 |
DFDS A/S has in week 51 purchased 39,955 own shares for DKK 13.0m as part of the share buyback of DKK 300m launched on 17 August 2017 and expiring latest on
6 February 2018, ref. company announcement no. 53/2017 of 17 August 2017.
The accumulated buyback of 685,440 shares for DKK 242.0m amounts to 80.7% of the programme.
| Period, 2017 | No. of shares | Average purchase price | Value, DKK |
| Accumulated week 50 | 645,485 | 354.9 | 229,054,102 |
| 18 December | 5,375 | 327.2 | 1,758,674 |
| 19 December | 8,006 | 329.5 | 2,637,799 |
| 20 December | 10,196 | 324.7 | 3,310,867 |
| 21 December | 7,758 | 320.7 | 2,487,622 |
| 22 December | 8,620 | 323.9 | 2,792,233 |
| Total week 51 | 39,955 | 325.0 | 12,987,195 |
| Accumulated week 51 | 685,440 | 353.1 | 242,041,296 |
Following the purchase, DFDS' holding of own shares is 2,348,143 equal to 4.1% of the total number of shares of 57,000,000. Excluding own shares, the number of circulating shares is 54,651,857.
The share buyback 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