Notification about Completion of Share Repurchase
- Share repurchase under the provisions of Epson's Articles of Incorporation pursuant to Article 165, Paragraph 2 of the Companies Act of Japan -
- TOKYO, Japan, January 17, 2023 -
At a meeting of its board of directors held on May 19, 2022, Seiko Epson Corporation (TSE: 6724, "Epson") resolved on a share repurchase pursuant to Article 156 of the Companies Act of Japan as applied pursuant to Article 165, Paragraph 3 of the same act, and implemented the share repurchase. Details of the share repurchase undertaken are below.
Epson has now completed the share repurchase following a resolution by the board of directors.
We plan to cancel all the treasury shares acquired as part of this repurchase, and will disclose the number of shares to be cancelled when this has been decided.
(1) Class of shares repurchased | Ordinary shares |
(2) Total number of shares purchased | 2,003,700 |
(3) Total repurchase amount | 3,868,621,600 yen |
(4) Repurchase period | January 1, 2023, to January 16, 2023 (on an execution base) |
(5) Repurchase method | Purchase on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (By securities company using discretionary method) |
Reference
1. Details of the resolution at board of directors meeting held on May 19, 2022.
(1) Class of shares to be repurchased | Ordinary shares |
(2) Total number of repurchasable shares | 33 million (maximum) (9.35% of the total number of issued shares (excluding treasury stock)) |
(3) Total repurchase amount | 30 billion yen (maximum) |
(4) Repurchase period | May 20, 2022 to May 19, 2023 |
(5) Repurchase method | Purchase on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (By securities company using discretionary method) |
2. Total number of shares repurchased based on resolution of aforementioned board of directors' meeting (as of January 16, 2023)
(1) Total number of shares purchased | 14,612,500 |
(2) Total repurchase amount | 29,999,962,900 yen |
About Epson
Epson is a global technology leader whose philosophy of efficient, compact and precise innovation enriches lives and helps create a better world. The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle. Epson's goal is to become carbon negative and eliminate use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050.
Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of more than JPY 1 trillion.
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