Hafslund – Offer to purchase own series B-shares – received acceptances

Reference is made to the stock exchange announcement of 19 August 2014 regarding the offer from Hafslund ASA (“Hafslund”) to buy back up to 250,000 own series B-shares at a price of NOK 51.32 per share.

On 26 August 2014, Hafslund received acceptances to buy back 927,866 B-shares. The accumulated total of received acceptances is 1,024,141 B-shares since the commencement of the offer. With this Hafslund has received acceptances for the maximum number of B-shares that was offered for repurchase, which is 250,000 B-shares. Accounted for 250,000 B-shares comprised by the offer, Hafslund will own 420,411 own B-shares. B-shares comprised by the acceptances up to the total number of shares offered for repurchase, will be transferred to Hafslund after the expiration of the offer period.

Offer period runs until 28 August 2014 at 16:30 (CEST). More information can be found at www.dnb.no/emisjoner or by contacting DNB Markets on +47 23 26 81 01.

Hafslund ASA
Oslo, 27 August 2014