MEDIA RELEASE
Information concerning the share buyback
Geberit AG, Rapperswil-Jona, April 29, 2014
Start of Geberit AG share buyback program
The Geberit AG share buyback program announced on March 11, 2014 will start on April 30, 2014. Over a period of two years, shares amounting to a total of a maximum of 5% of the share capital recorded in the Commercial Register will be repurchased, less withholding tax, and retired by means of a capital reduction. The share buyback will be executed via a separate trading line on the SIX Swiss Exchange. Based on the closing price of Geberit registered shares on April 25, 2014, the value of the shares to be bought back is approximately CHF 533 million.
Please visit our website www.geberit.com from April 30, 2014 for additional information.
For further information, please contact: Geberit AG
Schachenstrasse 77, CH-8645 Jona
Roman Sidler, Corporate Communications & IR Tel. +41 (0)55 221 69 47
As a European market leader in the field of sanitary technology, the Geberit Group is a global provider with sales of CHF 2.3 billion. It employs 6,400 people in 41 countries around the world.
Geberit AG is the European leader in designing, manufacturing, and marketing sanitary systems intended for the construction and building renovation sectors. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- sanitary plumbing systems (38.3%): complete installed sanitary systems (showers, bathtubs, toilets, bidets, sinks, urinals, etc.), ball-valves, trigger plates, flush tanks, siphons, etc.;
- sanitary ceramic products (31.2%);
- pipe systems (30.5%): systems and conduits made of stainless steel, carbon steel, and copper, for draining water from buildings and roofs, distributing water and gas, etc.
At the end of 2021, the group had 26 production sites worldwide.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Switzerland (9.5%), Germany (31.3%), Eastern Europe (10.1%), Nordic Countries (9.6%), Benelux (8.4%), Italy (6.8 %), Austria (6.2%), France (5.4%), the United Kingdom and Ireland (3.1%), Iberian Peninsula (0.8%) and other (8.8%).
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