Denmark: Royal Unibrew performs share buy-back

Royal Unibrew communicated on October 18 that on 19 September 2005, the company 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 6 October 2005 Royal Unibrew has under the Programme made the following purchases:

Securities ID DK0010242999

Trading day Number of purchased shares Average trading price Amount DKK

Accumulated for day 1-14 32,965 546.87 18,027,656.85
07 October 2005 600 539.61 435,767.92
10 October 2005 812 536.66 323,400.00
11 October 2005 2,200 533.18 1,172,996.00
12 October 2005 3,500 531.35 1,859,725.00
13 October 2005 4,000 516.40 2,065,600.00
14 October 2005 5,000 516.14 2,580,700.00
17 October 2005 3,500 515.88 1,805,580.00
Accumulated for day 1-21 52,577 537.71 28,271,425.77

The purchases referred to above imply that Royal Unibrew A/S now holds a total of 164,709 treasury shares of a nominal value of DKK 10 each, equivalent to 2.6% of the total number of issued shares of 6,370,000.

E-malt.com, the global information source for the brewing and malting industry professionals. The bi-weekly E-malt.com Newsletters feature latest industry news, statistics in graphs and tables, world barley and malt prices, and other relevant information. Click here to get full access to E-malt.com. If you are a Castle Malting client, you can get free access to E-malt.com website and publications. Contact us for more information at marketing@castlemalting.com .