September 12 (SeeNews) - Slovenian pharmaceuticals producer Krka [LJE:KRKG] said it raised its own shareholdings to 5.268% from 5.257% after repurchasing 3,629 of its shares for an overall 346,018 euro ($352,770) on the Ljubljana bourse.
Krka bought 450 shares at 97.82 euro each on September 2, a further 885 shares at 95.95 euro each on September 5, 932 shares at 95.64 euro on September 6, 400 shares at 94.40 euro on September 7, as well as 962 shares at 93.75 euro each on September 8, it said in a bourse filing on Friday.
Prior to the transactions, Krka held 1,724,081 of its own shares. Following the repurchase, it now holds 1,720,055 own shares.
The share purchase is part of Krka's new share buyback programme, launched in July 2020, under which the company plans to acquire a maximum of just over 1.84 million own shares over the following 36 months. The maximum pecuniary amount allocated to the programme is 356.4 million euro.
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