E-Malt.com News article: Denmark: Latest overview of share buy-back at Royal Unibrew

On 19 September 2005, Royal Unibrew A/S launched its published Share Buy-back Programme with expected maximum share buy-back for DKK 100 million in the period up to 20 January 2006 (cf Announcement RU 25/2005 of 16 September 2005). The share buy-back will be executed under the ”Safe Harbour” provisions of the EU Commission Regulation No 2273/2003 of 22 December 2003. Royal Unibrew will therefore every seventh transaction day make an announcement of the accumulated purchases made under the Programme.

Since the latest announcement of 27 October 2005 Royal Unibrew has under the Programme made the following purchases:

Accumulated for trading day 1-28
Number of purchased shares - 64,212
Average trading price- 530.91
Amount DKK- 34,090,509.27

Trading day -03 November 2005
Number of purchased shares -5,000
Average trading price 487.00
Amount DKK- 2,435,000.00

Trading day- 04 November 2005
Number of purchased shares -2,200
Average trading price -492.59
Amount DKK- 1,083,698.00

Accumulated for trading day 1-35
Number of purchased shares -78,412
Average trading price -523.05
Amount DKK - 41,013,237.27

The purchases referred to above imply that Royal Unibrew A/S now holds a total of 190,544 treasury shares of a nominal value of DKK 10 each, equivalent to 3.0% of the total number of issued shares of 6,370,000.


09 November, 2005