February 3 (SeeNews) - Slovenian pharmaceuticals producer Krka [LJE:KRKG] said it raised its own shareholdings to 5.453% from 5.446% after repurchasing 2,477 of its shares for an overall 250,695 euro ($274,173) on the Ljubljana bourse.
Krka bought 637 shares at 98.93 euro each on January 27, 688 shares at 99.05 euro each on January 30, 436 shares at 100.34 euro each on January 31, as well as 716 shares at 105.84 euro each on February 2, it said in a bourse filing.
Prior to the transactions, Krka held 1,788,326 of its own shares. Following the repurchase, it now holds 1,785,849 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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