Zaandam, The Netherlands, September 6, 2001 - Ahold, the international food retail and foodservice company, today announced on behalf of the syndicate that the greenshoe option with respect to the equity offering of common shares and ADSs has been exercised.
The transaction size will increase by 10,500,000 shares to a total of 80,500,000 shares. The total number of Ahold common shares outstanding rises to approximately 912 million.
The proceeds of the offering will increase correspondingly by approximately Euro 335 million to approximately Euro 2.57 billion.
Earlier today, Ahold announced that the offering price of its new common shares has been set at Euro 31.90 per share and at USD 28.38 per ADS.
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