2009-08-31
Share capital increase as a result of employee stock option exercise pursuant to Acando's Employee Stock Option Program 2006/2009.
Acando's Employee Stock Option Program 2006/2009, which was approved by the Annual General Meeting in 2006 and provides approx 40 Group employees in senior positions with an opportunity to acquire new B-shares at a strike price of SEK 6.00 per share during the period April 27, 2009 – June 30, 2010 is currently in its exercise phase.
As a consequence of the exercise of allocated employee stock options, the share capital of Acando has during August 2009 increased from SEK 99,271,706 to SEK 99,284,011, corresponding to 9,844 new shares, with the same number of votes. The share capital increase with a total of SEK 12,305, which corresponds to the share subscription, has been registered by Bolagsverket (the Swedish Companies Registration Office) on August 21, 2009. The total number of shares in the company amounts herewith to 79,427,208, of which 75,787,218 of series B and 3,639,990 of series A. The number of voting rights in the company amounts to 112,187,118 after the share subscription.
Acando has in total repurchased 3,518,036 class B shares of the total number of shares in the company.
200 976 employee stock options remain to be exercised within the programme, after this periods exercise.
Information on the Employee Stock Option Program 2006/2009 is available in Acando's Annual Report 2008 on page 42, note 9.
Further information is available from:
Bengt Lejdström, CFO, Acando, +46 8 699 7314.
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