| company announcement no. 72 |
DFDS A/S has in week 45 purchased 33,811 own shares for DKK 12.2m 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 451,168 shares for DKK 163.3m amounts to 54.4% of the programme.
| Period, 2017 | No. of shares | Average purchase price | Value, DKK |
| Accumulated week 44 | 417,357 | 362.0 | 151,100,545 |
| 06 November | 7,181 | 364.8 | 2,619,886 |
| 07 November | 9,636 | 361.4 | 3,482,327 |
| 08 November | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 09 November | 8,863 | 363.4 | 3,220,823 |
| 10 November | 8,131 | 358.3 | 2,913,471 |
| Total week 45 | 33,811 | 361.9 | 12,236,507 |
| Accumulated week 45 | 451,168 | 362.0 | 163,337,053 |
Following the purchase, DFDS' holding of own shares is 2,113,931 equal to 3.7% of the total number of shares of 57,000,000. Excluding own shares, the number of circulating shares is 54,886,069.
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