| company announcement no 05 |
DFDS A/S has in week 3 purchased 34,989 own shares for DKK 12.7m 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 796,700 shares for DKK 281.1m amounts to 93.7% of the programme.
| Period, 2018 | No. of shares | Average purchase price | Value, DKK |
| Accumulated week 2 | 761,711 | 352.5 | 268,431,241 |
| 15 January | 7,060 | 362.3 | 2,557,899 |
| 16 January | 8,620 | 363.7 | 3,135,169 |
| 17 January | 7,241 | 361.1 | 2,614,641 |
| 18 January | 6,896 | 359.4 | 2,478,392 |
| 19 January | 5,172 | 360.4 | 1,863,942 |
| Total week 3 | 34,989 | 361.5 | 12,650,044 |
| Accumulated week 3 | 796,700 | 352.8 | 281,081,285 |
Following the purchase, DFDS' holding of own shares is 2,459,403 equal to 4.3% of the total number of shares of 57,000,000. Excluding own shares, the number of circulating shares is 54,540,597.
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