E-Malt.com News article: Denmark: Share buy-back at Royal Unibrew

On 19 September 2005, Royal Unibrew A/S launched its published Share Buy-back Programme with expected maximum share buy-back for DKK 100 million in the period up to 20 January 2006 (cf Announcement RU 25/2005 of 16 September 2005). The share buy-back will be executed under the “Safe Harbour” provisions of the EU Commission Regulation No 2273/2003 of 22 December 2003. Royal Unibrew will therefore every seventh transaction day make an announcement of the accumulated purchases made under the Programme.

Since the latest announcement of 18 October 2005 Royal Unibrew has under the Programme made the following purchases:

Securities ID DK0010242999

Accumulated for trading day 1-21
Number of purchased shares 52,577
Average trading price 537.71
Amount DKK 28,271,425.77

Trading day 24 October 2005
Number of purchased shares 1,500
Average trading price 498.96
Amount DKK 48,440.00

Trading day 25 October 2005
Number of purchased shares 1,300
Average trading price 502.31
Amount DKK 653,003.00


Trading day 26 October 2005
Number of purchased shares 3,350
Average trading price 499.01
Amount DKK 1.671,683.50

Accumulated for trading day 1-28
Number of purchased shares 64,212
Average trading price 530.91
Amount DKK 34,090,509.27

The purchases referred to above imply that Royal Unibrew A/S now holds a total of 176,344 treasury shares of a nominal value of DKK 10 each, equivalent to 2.8% of the total number of issued shares of 6,370,000.


28 October, 2005