Vend Marketplaces ASA (VENDA/VENDB) - Share buyback result

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Reference is made to the notice issued on 16 June 2025, where Vend Marketplaces ASA (the "Company") launched an offer to all shareholders to purchase up to 13.5 million shares in the Company at a fixed price of NOK 359.84 for A-shares and NOK 343.72 for B-shares, corresponding to a premium of 2% to the closing price as of 11 June 2025 adjusted for the payment of a special cash dividend of NOK 2.22 (the "Offering"). The application period expired at 16:30 CEST on 17 June 2025.

Following the end of the application period, the Company has resolved to buy 482,670 A-shares and 13,013,248 B-shares, corresponding to a total of 13,495,918 shares. 

Blommenholm Industrier AS has sold 10,182,706 B-shares in the Offering.

Trond Berger, CEO at Blommenholm Industrier AS, commented: “The Tinius Trust, through Blommenholm Industrier AS, supports Vend in returning excess cash to its shareholders. The Tinius Trust is indifferent to whether this takes place as a share buyback or through cash dividends but wanted to show support for the initiative taken by the Company to adjust its balance sheet. We remain a committed core shareholder of Vend and support its ongoing verticalisation strategy.”

Allocation notifications will be sent to shareholders having tendered shares in the Offering on or about 18 June 2025. The trade date will be 17 June 2025, and the settlement date is expected to be on or about 19 June 2025. The settlement will be conducted on a normal delivery-versus-payment basis (DVP) or through the VPS system. 

Following settlement of the Offering, Vend Marketplaces ASA will own 4,669,889 A-shares and 17,596,009 B-shares, corresponding to a total of 22,265,898 shares. 

Oslo, 17 June 2025
VEND MARKETPLACES ASA

The information contained herein about the Offering is considered to be inside information pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to MAR article 17 and section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act. This stock exchange release was published by Jann-Boje Meinecke on 17 June 2025 at 19:38 CEST.

IMPORTANT NOTICE 

The Offering and the distribution of this announcement and other information in connection with the Offering may be restricted by law in certain jurisdictions (including, but not limited to, the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan). Neither the Company nor the bookrunner in the Offering assume any responsibility in the event there is a violation by any person of such restrictions. This includes shareholders who have changed their domicile to such jurisdictions but which may access their VPS accounts. Persons into whose possession this announcement or relevant information should come are required to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions. The Offering is not being made directly or indirectly in, or by use of the mails of, or by any means or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce of, or any facilities of a national securities exchange of, the United States of America, its territories and possessions, any State of the United States and the District of Columbia (the "United States") or any other jurisdiction in which this would be unlawful, require registration or other measures. This includes, but is not limited to, facsimile transmission, internet delivery, e-mail and telephones. Copies of this release and any related documents are not being, and must not be, mailed, e-mailed or otherwise distributed or sent in or into the United States or any such jurisdiction and so doing may invalidate any purported acceptance.