January 19 (SeeNews) - Slovenian chemicals producer Cinkarna Celje [LJE:CICG] said it repurchased 553 of its own shares for a total of 101,280 euro ($122,516).
Thus, Cinkarna Celje has increased its holding of own shares to 2.81% of the issued share capital from 2.7415%, the company said in a filing with the Ljubljana Stock Exchange on Monday.
As of January 18, following the transaction, Cinkarna Celje held 22,704 own shares.
The decision for the share buyback was approved by the general shareholders' meeting of Cinkarna Celje on June 17.
Cinkarna Celje's shares closed down 1.61% at 183 euro on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange on Monday.
($ = 0.826604 euro)