Reference is made to the Stock Exchange notifications dated 9 and 10 February 2011 regarding the offer from Marine Harvest ASA to purchase shares from shareholders who, as of 8 February 2011, held less than 1,000 shares in Marine Harvest ASA (the "Offer").
In total [1,429] shareholders have accepted the Offer for a total number of 328,703 shares in Marine Harvest ASA. After this, Marine Harvest ASA owns 328,713 own shares.
The settlement in cash based on an offer price of NOK 6.9837 per share will be made on or about 8 March 2011 to those shareholders that have accepted the Offer. The entire sales amount in Norwegian kroner will be transferred to the relevant shareholder's Norwegian bank account registered as the dividend account in VPS or to such other Norwegian bank account as was indicated on the acceptance form. If no dividend bank account is registered with VPS and no account was indicated on the acceptance form, settlement to Norwegian residents will be made by bank transfer service ("bankgiro") and settlement to foreign residents will be made by check.
In accordance with Section 4-24 of the Norwegian Public Limited Companies Act, Marine Harvest ASA will apply to the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry for permission to carry out a compulsory acquisition of shares owned by shareholders whose shares have a total value that does not exceed NOK 500. The compulsory acquisition will be completed on the basis of the same purchase price per share as in the Offer.
This information is subject of the disclosure requirements acc. to ยง5-12 vphl (Norwegian Securities Trading Act).