Slovenia's Krka repurchases 5,521 own shares

Krka bought 1,417 shares at 94.0 euro each on December 2, 1,003 shares at 94.34 euro each on December 5, 350 shares at 94.29 euro each on December 6, 1,377 shares at 94.50 euro each on December 7, as well as 1,374 shares at 94.74 euro each on December 8, it said in a bourse filing.

Prior to the transactions, Krka held 1,770,983 of its own shares. Following the repurchase, it now holds 1,776,504 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.

($ = 0.947115 euro)