ALK-Abelló

Share Issue/Capital Change • Mar 16, 2017

Copenhagen, 2017-03-16 12:55 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

ALK (ALKB:DC / OMX: ALK B / AKABY / AKBLF) reports the following transactions,
based on the allotments of share options and conditional shares which ALK has
granted in accordance with the sign on fee for the new President & CEO Carsten
Hellmann adopted at the company’s Annual General Meeting on 15 March 2017:

1. Details of the person discharging managerial responsibility / person closely
   associated

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a) Name Carsten Hellmann

2. Reason for the notification

a) Position/status President & CEO

b) Initial notification/ Initial notification
amendment

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1. Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction
   platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

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a) Name ALK-Abelló A/S

b) LEI 529900SGCREUZCZ7P020

1. Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of
   instrument: (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each
   place where transactions have been conducted

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a) Description of the financial instrument, B shares
type of instrument DK0060027142
Identification code

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b) Nature of the transaction Allotment based on existing
programmes from 2014 and 2015 and
a new programme

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c) Price(s) and volume(s) Price(s) Volume(s)

                                             DKK     6,800 (2014: share     
                                          1,832,310   options)

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                                             DKK     1,125 (2014:           
                                          1,039,500   conditional shares)

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                                             DKK     5,900 (2015: share     
                                          1,450,296   options)

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                                             DKK     1,140 (2015:           
                                          1,053,360   conditional shares)

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                                             DKK     17,068 (new: share     
                                          3,924,533   options)

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d) Aggregated information 32,033
- Aggregated volume DKK 9,299,999 million
- Price

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e) Date of the transaction 2017-01-01

f) Place of the transaction NASDAQ Copenhagen

                             ALK-Abelló A/S

For further information please contact:
Investor Relations: Per Plotnikof, tel. +45 4574 7527, mobile +45 2261 2525