Copenhagen, 2016-05-30 09:49 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Announcement no. 34 DFDS A/S has in week 21 purchased 21,909 own shares for DKK 7.1m 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 610,722 shares for DKK 150.2m amounts to 60.1% of the programme. Period, 2016 No. of shares Average purchase price Value, DKK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Accumulated week 20 588,813 243.1 143,113,158 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 23 May 4,347 323.6 1,406,733 24 May 3,999 320.6 1,282,119 25 May 4,521 323.9 1,464,397 26 May 4,695 323.5 1,518,739 27 May 4,347 322.5 1,401,994 Total week 21 21,909 322.9 7,073,982 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Accumulated week 21 610,722 245.9 150,187,140 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Following the purchase, DFDS’ holding of own shares is 1,795,322 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 58,204,678. 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