Hedging of long-term share-based remuneration program for employees, and synthetic shares as part of board remuneration, through repurchase of own shares in Investor AB
Investor AB hereby reports that the company repurchased 300,000 B shares in Investor on April 24, 2008, at an average price of SEK 139 per share, in order to hedge the company’s long-term share-based remuneration program for 2008, and synthetic shares as part of board remuneration, as approved by the 2008 Annual General Meeting.
In addition to the 300,000 repurchased B-shares, Investor holds 1,679,400 of its own B-shares that were repurchased earlier to hedge the 2006, 2007 and 2008 programs.
The total number of shares in Investor amount to 767,175,030, of which 311,690,844 are class A-shares and 455,484,186 class B-shares.
INVESTOR AB
For further information:
Fredrik Lindgren, Vice President, Corporate Communications,
Phone +46 8 614 20 31, +46 735 24 2031
Oscar Stege Unger, Vice President, Investor Relations,
Phone +46 8 614 20 59, +46 70 624 2059