In November 2009 Rieber & Søn ASA gave the Group's employees the offer of purchasing shares in Rieber & Søn ASA. A new feature of this year's programme was that all the Group's employees received the offer of purchasing shares in Rieber & Søn ASA.

 

Employees had the option of purchasing shares in five different amount categories, with the market value varying from NOK 1 500 to NOK 30 000. Employees were entitled to a rebate of 20%.

 

The result of the share programme shows that 357 of the employees availed themselves of the offer and bought shares at a price of NOK 42,48 (volume-weighted price on the Oslo Stock Exchange during the offer period).

 

In connection with the Group's programme to sell shares to employees, Rieber & Søn ASA has today sold a total of 116 141 of its own shares at the stated price. Following this sale, Rieber & Søn ASA owns 1 019 170 of its own shares.

 

Enclosed is a list of employees with a reporting requirement who have taken up the share offer and have purchased shares, along with a statement of each employee's new shareholding in Rieber & Søn:

 

 

Bergen, 4 December 2009

Rieber & Søn ASA

 

Contact person:

Geir Mikalsen, Director of Communications                     Tel.: (+47) 90 62 08 51.