Tele2 AB (NASDAQ OMX Stockholm: TEL2 A and TEL2 B) said Tele2´s total number of shares has increased by 2,300,000 shares.
The change refers to an issue of 2,300,000 new class C shares in December of which 1,700,000 then have been reclassified to class B-shares to enable future delivery of class B shares to participants in Tele2´s retention and performance based incentive programme for senior executives and other key employees, which was approved by the Annual General Meeting of shareholders held on 19 May 2015.
As of 31 December 2015, the total number of shares in Tele2 amounts to 451 083 339 of which 20,260,910 are class A shares with ten votes each, 428,923,429 are class B shares with one vote each and 1,899,000 are class C shares with one vote each. The total number of votes in the company amounts to 633,431,529. The total number of votes in the company excluding 2,995,972 class B shares and 1,899,000 class C shares held in treasury amounts to 628,536,557.