Philips completes cancellation of 8.8 million shares
July 04 2022 - 07:00AM
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Philips completes cancellation of 8.8 million shares
July 4, 2022Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Royal Philips
(NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) today announced that it has completed the
cancellation of 8,758,455 of its shares. The cancelled shares were
acquired as part of the EUR 1.5 billion share repurchase program
for capital reduction purposes that was announced on July 26,
2021.Philips’ current issued share capital amounts to EUR
177,863,016.40 representing 889,315,082 common shares. As
communicated earlier, Philips intends to have 19,571,218 shares
delivered through the early settlement of forward contracts
(entered into as part of the same share repurchase program) and to
cancel those as well, which would result in 869,743,864 issued
common shares at year-end 2022 (2021: 883,898,969).More information
is available here. For further information, please
contact:Ben ZwirsPhilips Global Press OfficeTel.: +31 6
15213446E-mail: ben.zwirs@philips.comDerya GuzelPhilips Investor
RelationsTel.: +31 20 59 77055E-mail:
derya.guzel@philips.comAbout Royal PhilipsRoyal Philips
(NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a leading health technology company
focused on improving people's health and well-being, and enabling
better outcomes across the health continuum – from healthy living
and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care. Philips
leverages advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer
insights to deliver integrated solutions. Headquartered in the
Netherlands, the company is a leader in diagnostic imaging,
image-guided therapy, patient monitoring and health informatics, as
well as in consumer health and home care. Philips generated 2021
sales of EUR 17.2 billion and employs approximately 79,000
employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. News
about Philips can be found at
www.philips.com/newscenter.Forward-looking statementsThis
release contains certain forward-looking statements with respect to
the financial condition, results of operations and business of
Philips and certain of the plans and objectives of Philips with
respect to these items. Examples of forward-looking statements
include statements made about the strategy, estimates of sales
growth, future EBITA, future developments in Philips’ organic
business and the completion of acquisitions and divestments. By
their nature, these statements involve risk and uncertainty because
they relate to future events and circumstances and there are many
factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ
materially from those expressed or implied by these statements.
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