Transactions under share buyback programme

Matas A/S
Changes in company's own shares

Transactions under share buyback programme

Company announcement 42 2016/17

Allerød, 2017-01-13 09:12 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 6 January 2017 – 12 January 2017: 



Trading day                   Number of      Average purchase        Transaction
                                 shares            price, DKK         value, DKK
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6 January 2017                   14,000                 97.05          1,358,700
9 January 2017                   13,000                 97.97          1,273,610
10 January 2017                   8,000                102.31            818,480
11 January 2017                   8,000                101.00            808,000
12 January 2017                   6,000                101.46            608,760
                                                                                
Accumulated the last 5           49,000                 99.34          4,867,550
 trading days                                                                   
Accumulated under the         1,169,488                108.65        127,059,696
 program                                                                        
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Following the transactions, Matas has purchased a total number of 1,169,488
shares since 1 September 2016 and holds 1,431,436 treasury shares, equivalent
to 3.64% 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