Company announcement 36 2016/17 Allerød, 2016-12-09 10:30 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Board of Directors of Matas have resolved to initiate a share buyback programme in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 of Regulation No. 596/2014 of the European Parliament and Council of 16 April 2014 (MAR) and Regulation 2016/1052, also referred to as the "Safe Harbor" rules. Please refer to company announcement no. 15 dated 30 August 2016. The programme, which was initiated with a view to cancelling the shares bought back, amounts to DKK 150 million and runs from and including 1 September 2016 through 31 March 2017 at the latest. Under the share buyback programme, the following transactions have been made during the period 2 December – 8 December 2016: Trading day Number of Average purchase Transaction shares price, DKK value, DKK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 December 2016 25,000 93.32 2,333,000 5 December 2016 25,000 93.17 2,329,250 6 December 2016 20,000 94.02 1,880,400 7 December 2016 20,000 93.82 1,876,400 8 December 2016 20,000 94.24 1,884,800 Accumulated the last 5 110,000 93.67 10,303,850 trading days Accumulated under the 907,488 111.84 101,496,066 program -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the transactions, Matas has purchased a total number of 907,488 shares since 1 September 2016 and holds 1,169,436 treasury shares, equivalent to 2.98% of the company's total share capital. We enclose share buy-back transactions data in detailed form provided in accordance with the Commissions delegated regulation (EU) 2016/1052 of 8 March 2016. Please address any questions to Søren Mølbak. Head of Investor Relations, at tel +45 48 1655 48. Matas A/S