The regular shareholders' meeting of JSC ‘Siguldas ciltslietu un mākslīgās apsēklošanas stacija’, held on April 26, 2024, approved to pay out the retained earnings of 21 122.00 EUR in dividends, which is 0.05 EUR per share.

16 May 2024

ICG Enterprise Trust plc (the “Company”)

Multitude SE with continued strong growth at the start of 2024: EBIT increases by 31 percent to EUR 11.6 million

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COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT

Meudon (France), May 16^th, 2024

Consolidated interim report 1 January – 31 March 2024

Allschwil, Switzerland, May 16, 2024

The Hague, May 16, 2024 - Aegon today announces the appointment of Duncan Russell (1978) as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective September 1, 2024. Duncan will succeed Matt Rider (1963), who will retire after over seven years of exceptional service to the company. Matt will continue to serve as a member of the Board of Transamerica on a non-executive basis.

The board of directors of Vastned Belgium NV (Euronext: VASTB, “Vastned Belgium” or the “Company”) has requested the committee of independent directors of the Company (the “Committee”) to issue an opinion in application of article 7:97 of the Belgian Companies and Associations Code (the “BCAC”) on the conclusion of an agreement entitled “Merger Protocol” (the “Merger Protocol”) between the Company and Vastned Retail NV, a listed public limited liability company incorporated under Dutch law, having its corporate seat in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and its principal place of business at Mercuriusplein 11, 2132 HA Hoofddorp, the Netherlands and registered in the trade register of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel) under number 24262564 (“Vastned Retail” and together with the Company, the “Parties” and, together with their affiliated companies, the “Group”).

• Vastned Retail and Vastned Belgium intend to merge Vastned Retail into Vastned Belgium, to be named “Vastned”

• The Merger aims to generate value for Vastned and its stakeholders, including:

   o Simplification of organizational and governance structure, while continuing current successful strategy;

   o Expected future recurring annual operational cost synergies of approx. EUR 2.0 - 2.5 million;

   o Optimized debt financing;

   o Increased free float and liquidity;

   o One single listed platform under Belgium’s REIT regime;

   o More portfolio diversification;

   o Future ability to pursue accretive growth

• One listed organization with trading on Euronext Brussels and Euronext Amsterdam, with an expected increase in free float and liquidity for shareholders and a more interesting profile for equity analyst coverage

• Vastned will be headquartered in Belgium with a board of directors comprised of five individuals, chaired by Lieven Cuvelier

• Sven Bosman will become CEO of Vastned

• The Merger is expected to become effective on 1 January 2025, following shareholder approval and satisfaction of other customary conditions

• At completion, Vastned Retail shareholders will receive 0.839 Vastned Belgium share for each outstanding Vastned Retail share

• To mitigate the immediate impact on the cash dividend for shareholders of Vastned Belgium in light of the different yield profile of Vastned Retail compared to Vastned Belgium, Vastned Belgium will declare an additional dividend of 1.00 per share, to be paid to its pre-merger shareholders in January 2025

• Vastned Retail will declare and pay an interim dividend of EUR 1.70 per share in December 2024 (with no interim dividend to be declared and paid by Vastned Retail in August 2024)

• Vastned Belgium will declare and pay an interim dividend of EUR 2.30 per share in December 2024

• The Vastned Retail Boards as well as the independent directors of Vastned Belgium unanimously support and recommend the Merger

• Vastned Retail shareholders, being entities controlled by Messrs. Van Herk, Meulman, De Jonge and Niessen and ICAMAP Real Estate Securities Fund, representing, in the aggregate, more than 42% of the voting rights in Vastned Retail support the simplification and strategic restructuring of the group into one listed organization and have committed to vote in favor of the Merger

Oslo, 16 May 2024 – DNO ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas operator, today announced the completion of the acquisition of a 25 percent interest in the Arran field on the UK Continental Shelf by the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary DNO Exploration UK Limited from ONE-Dyas E&P Limited. The field is operated by Shell UK Limited (44.57 percent) and was brought on stream in 2021 as a subsea tie-back to the Shell-operated Shearwater A platform.

VEON 1Q24 Trading Update: Accelerating USD Growth, Strong Operational Execution

Basel, 16 May 2024 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today positive results from the Phase I clinical trial of CT-388, a dual GLP-1/GIP receptor agonist being developed for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes. The study found that a once-weekly subcutaneous injection of CT-388 over 24 weeks resulted in significant weight loss in healthy adults with obesity compared to placebo. The weight loss achieved with CT-388 was clinically meaningful, with a mean placebo-adjusted weight loss of 18.8% (p-value < 0.001). At week 24, 100% of CT-388 treated participants achieved a weight loss of >5%, 85% achieved >10%, 70% achieved >15%, and 45% achieved >20%. The treatment was well tolerated, with mild to moderate gastrointestinal-related adverse events being the most common, consistent with the incretin class of medicines that CT-388 belongs to. All participants with a pre-diabetes status at baseline became normoglycemic after 24 weeks of CT-388 treatment, whereas glycemic status of participants treated with placebo remained largely unchanged during this period.

‘We recorded a net profit of 506 million euros in the first quarter of 2024. Compared to the result of the previous quarter, our total income benefited from several factors, including higher net interest income, net fee and commission income and insurance revenues, though these items were partly offset by lower levels of dividend income and trading & fair value income. Costs were up, since the bulk of the bank and insurance taxes for the full year are recorded – as usual – in the first quarter of the year. Disregarding bank and insurance taxes, costs fell by as much as 9% quarter-on-quarter and 1% year-on-year. Impairment charges too were down significantly, as the previous quarter had included a sizeable one-off impairment on goodwill.

The Hague, May 16, 2024 - Please click here to access all 1Q2024 Trading Update related documents. 

Lassila & Tikanoja plc
Stock exchange release
16 May 2024 at 8.00 a.m.

Company announcement - No. 26 / 2024

Oslo, 16 May 2024 - DNO ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas operator, today announced that the Company's shares will be traded ex-dividend effective 16 May 2024.