Copenhagen, 2016-05-17 11:13 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Announcement no. 31

DFDS A/S has in week 19 purchased 18,259 own shares for DKK 5.1m as part of the
share buyback programme of DKK 250m launched on 12 February 2016 and expiring
latest on 17 August 2016, ref. company announcement no. 4/2016 of 12 February
2016. 

The accumulated share buy-back of 573,163 shares for DKK 138.2m amounts to
55.3% of the programme. 



Period, 2016         No. of shares  Average  purchase price   Value, DKK
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Accumulated week 18        554,904                    239.8  133,092,736
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09 May                       3,478                    268.2      932,939
10 May                       3,478                    267.3      929,809
11 May                       4,347                    268.6    1,167,778
12 May                       3,478                    291.7    1,014,359
13 May                       3,478                    295.7    1,028,375
Total week 19               18,259                    277.8    5,073,259
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Accumulated week 19        573,163                    241.1  138,165,995
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Following the purchase, DFDS’ holding of own shares is 1,775,968 equal to 3.0%
of the Company’s total no. of shares of 60,000,000. Excluding own shares, the
no. of circulating shares is 58,224,032. 

The share buy-back programme is organised in compliance with the EU
Commission’s Regulation (EC) No 2273/2003 (Safe Harbour regulation for share
buybacks). 



Contact

Torben Carlsen, CFO +45 33 42 32 01

Søren Brøndholt Nielsen, IR +45 33 42 33 59