Copenhagen, 2016-06-13 10:27 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Announcement no. 37 DFDS A/S has in week 23 purchased 27,300 own shares for DKK 8.7m 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 656,280 shares for DKK 164.8m amounts to 65.9% of the programme. Period, 2016 No. of shares Average purchase price Value, DKK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Accumulated week 22 628,980 248.3 156,147,354 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 06 June 5,564 319.2 1,776,196 07 June 5,564 323.7 1,800,844 08 June 3,130 326.7 1,022,696 09 June 5,217 321.6 1,677,579 10 June 7,825 309.4 2,420,664 Total week 23 27,300 318.6 8,697,978 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Accumulated week 23 656,280 251.2 164,845,333 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Following the purchase, DFDS’ holding of own shares is 1,840,880 equal to 3.1% of the Company’s total no. of shares of 60,000,000. Excluding own shares, the no. of circulating shares is 58,159,120. 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