Acceptances received under mandatory offer to acquire all shares in NTS ASA

Reference is made to the mandatory offer (the “Offer”) from SalMar ASA (the “Offeror”) to acquire all shares in NTS ASA (“NTS” or the “Company”) at an offer price of NOK 75.48184 per share pursuant to an offer document dated 22 November 2022. Further reference is made to the stock exchange announcement from the Offeror 20 December 2022 regarding received acceptances of the Offer for 46,661,357 shares. On 20 December 2022 the Offeror has received acceptances under the Offer for an additional 249,888 shares. In aggregate the Offeror has on 20 December 2022 received acceptances of the Offer for a total of 46,911,245 shares.

Following these acceptances, the Offeror has received acceptances for a total of 47,168,797 shares and votes in NTS under the Offer. In addition, the Offeror owns a total of 66,235,009 shares in the Company. The Offeror accordingly has an aggregate holding of 113,403,806 shares and rights to shares in NTS, equal to approximately 90.21% of the total number of 125,717,306 issued shares in the Company.

The Offeror is a close associate of Gustav Witzøe, Chair of the board in NTS.

Please see attached notification form in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation article 19.

This notification has been submitted pursuant to the Securities Trading Act section 5-12.