Award of stock options according to long term option program

Acta Holding ASA has on the 18th of August awarded stock options in accordance with an option program for all employees in Acta within a framework of 5.5 million stock options for each of the years 2009, 2010 and 2011. Reference is made to the notices to Oslo Stock Exchange on 28th of October 2009 and on 17th of February 2010.

A total of 1.375 million stock options were awarded to 37 employees on the 18th of August 2010. The total number of outstanding stock options after the allocation on 18th of August 2010 is 9.630 million.

The strike price for the options shall be 105% of the Acta share's closing price on the Oslo Stock Exchange on the date of the award, which means a strike price of NOK 2.46. The strike price shall however be reduced by the accumulated dividend paid in the period after the options have been awarded.

The stock options awarded on the 18th of August 2010 can be exercised with 100 % in a period of four weeks (28 days) after the interim results of the second quarter in 2012 have been presented by the company by notice to the Oslo Stock Exchange. 

Contact information:
CFO Christian Tunge, mobile phone +47 450 65 850

This information is subject of the disclosure requirements acc. to §5-12 vphl (Norwegian Securities Trading Act)