ALK-Abelló

Transaction in Own Shares • Jan 8, 2013

Share buy-back programme – week 2/2013

Share Buy-Back in ALK

Hørsholm 8 January 2013

Page 1/1 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 bought back	Average transaction price	Amount (DKK)
Accumulated, last
announcement	97,103		36,246,454
2 January 2013	539	392.38	211,493
3 January 2013	750	391.61	293,708
4 January 2013	70	391.50	27,404
7 January 2013	1,300	397.88	517,244
Accumulated under the
programme	99,762	373.85	37,296,303

As of today, ALK's total holding of own shares is 457,479 shares of a nominal value of DKK 10, corresponding to 4.5% 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