Company Announcement No. 374
On 29 October 2010, DSV initiated the published share buy-back programme, cf. company announcement no. 361 of 29 October 2010. According to the programme DSV will in the period to 16 February 2011 purchase own shares up to a maximum value of DKK 600,000,000 and no more than 6,000,000 shares. The program is implemented in accordance with the “Safe Harbour” provisions of EU regulation no. 2273/2003 of 22 December 2003. Therefore, DSV will publish the accumulated buy-backs under the programme every 7th trading day.
Trading day | Number of shares bought back | Average transaction price | Amount DKK |
Accumulated for trading day 1-63 | 4,647,490 | 116.81 | 542,868,971 |
64: 28 January 2011 | 139,257 | 116.04 | 16,159,382 |
65: 31 January 2011 | 91,135 | 113.85 | 10,375,720 |
66: 1 February 2011 | 2,911 | 116.40 | 338,840 |
67: 2 February 2011 | 122,777 | 116.26 | 14,274,054 |
68: 3 February 2011 | 25,000 | 115.84 | 2,896,000 |
69: 4 February 2011 | 4,064 | 115.99 | 471,383 |
70: 7 February 2011 | 108,400 | 116.34 | 12,611,256 |
Accumulated for trading 1-70 | 5,141,034 | 116.71 | 599,995,606 |
DSV’s accumulated share buy-backs in the period from 29 October 2010 to 7 February 2011 thus total 5,141,034 numbers of shares at a total purchase sum of 600 DKK million. The published share buy-back programme has now been concluded and the shares bought back will partly be used to hedge the Group’s incentive programme. At DSV’s annual general meeting it will be proposed that shares which are not used for the hedge of the incentive programme will be cancelled. It is expected, that the largest part of the shares bought back will be cancelled.
As of today DSV A/S now holds a total of 5,115,061 shares of a nominal DKK 1 in DSV A/S corresponding to 2.45% of the total number of issued shares of 209,150,000.
The last announcement dated 27 January 2011 stated that DSV A/S held 2.21% of the company’s share capital.
Any questions may be addressed to Jens H. Lund, CFO, tel. +45 43 20 30 40.
Yours sincerely,
DSV
Jens Bjørn Andersen Jens H. Lund
CEO CFO