ALK-Abelló

Transaction in Own Shares • Oct 23, 2012

Copenhagen, 2012-10-23 09:14 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

On 14 May 2012, ALK-Abelló A/S (“ALK”) initiated a share buy-back programme,
cf. company announcement No. 14/2012. According to the programme, ALK will in
the period from 15 May 2012 to 4 February 2013 purchase own shares for a
maximum amount of DKK 75 million and no more than 200,000 shares corresponding
to 2.0% of the current share capital of ALK. The share buy-back programme is
initiated and structured in compliance with the EU Commission Regulation No.
2273/2003 of 22 December 2003 and thus ALK will publish the accumulated share
buy-back under the programme every week.

The following transactions have been made under the programme:

                               No of shares        Average      Amount (DKK)
                                bought back      transaction                
                                                    price

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Accumulated, last announcement 66,577 24,761,183

16 October 2012 0 0.00 0

17 October 2012 400 366.00 146,400

18 October 2012 578 365.46 211,236

19 October 2012 552 365.91 201,982

22 October 2012 544 364.21 198,132

Accumulated under the programme 68,651 371.72 25,518,933

As of today, ALK's total holding of own shares is 426,368 shares of a nominal
value of DKK 10, corresponding to 4.2% of the total number of issued shares of
10,128,360.

                             ALK-Abelló A/S


                               Jens Bager
                            President and CEO

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