Company announcement No 40/2012– 20 August 2012 On 1 May 2012, Royal Unibrew initiated a share buy-back programme, cf. company announcement no. 20/2012 of 30 April 2012. The programme was implemented in accordance with the provisions of European Commission Regulation no. 2273/2003 of 22 December 2003, also referred to as the Safe Harbour Regulation. The share buy-back programme is expected to be realised in the period from 1 May 2012 to 13 November 2012. The total share buy-back in the period will not exceed a market price of DKK 125 million. The following transactions have been made under the programme: Number Average purchase Transaction value, of price DKK shares -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accumulated, last 151,836 383.22 58,186,050.55 announcement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- August 13, 2012 1,267 377.32 478,064.44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- August 14, 2012 1,087 379.15 412,136.05 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- August 15, 2012 2,500 376.96 942,400.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- August 16, 2012 2,500 373.29 933,225.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- August 17, 2012 - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accumulated under the 159,190 382.89 60,951,876.04 programme -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the transactions stated above, Royal Unibrew owns a total of 180,455 shares, corresponding to 1.7% of the share capital. The total amount of shares in the company is 10,570,000 shares, including treasury shares. Please direct any queries to me at tel. +45 56 77 15 05. Yours sincerely Royal Unibrew A/S Lars Jensen CFO