Kindred Launches Share Buyback Programme
Kindred Group’s Board of Directors has decided to start exercising the buy-back mandate which was received at the EGM in June 2020. The buy-back programme will run between 1 March and 30 April 2021 and amounts to a total of up to SEK 190 million.
The Board of Directors of Kindred Group plc has empowered by a mandate received at the Extraordinary General meeting on 11 June 2020, decided to initiate a share buy-back programme. The purpose of the programme is to return excess cash to the Company’s shareholders. The programme permits share repurchases being executed during the upcoming closed period ahead of the first quarter interim report publication.
The buy-back programme decided by the Board of Directors shall meet the following terms:
- The maximum number of shares that can be repurchased is 2,000,000. The Company’s holdings of its own shares may not at any time exceed 10 per cent of the total outstanding shares.
- The total share repurchases under the program may not exceed SEK 190,000,000.
- Share repurchases are to be made on Nasdaq Stockholm in accordance with the Nasdaq Nordic Main Market Rulebook for Issuers of Shares, MAR and the Safe Harbour Regulation.
- Share repurchases can be made from 1 March to 30 April 2021.
- Share repurchases are to be made at a price per share within the recorded interval, i.e. the interval between the highest buying price and the lowest selling price .
- Payments for the shares are to be made in cash.
Following repurchase, the intention of the Board is to cancel the repurchased shares. The cancellation of shares requires approval by the annual general meeting and the Board of Directors intends to seek such approval at the annual general meeting in May 2021
