Nidec Announces the Status of Own Share Repurchase
July 01, 2015 at 03:59 am EDT
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KYOTO, Japan, July 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nidec Corporation (NYSE:NJ) (the "Company") today announced the status of the Company's own share repurchase under its ongoing repurchase plan resolved at a meeting of the Board of Directors held on January 22, 2015, pursuant to Article 459, Paragraph 1, Item 1 of the Company Law of Japan.
Details are as follows:
Details of Share Repurchase
1. Period of own share repurchase: From June 1, 2015 through June 30, 2015
2. Class of shares: Common stock
3. Number of own shares repurchased: 0
4. Total repurchase amount: 0 yen
Note: The above repurchase information has been prepared on the basis of execution date.
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A) The following details were resolved by the Company's Board of Directors on January 22, 2015:
1. Class of shares: Common stock
2. Total number of shares to be repurchased: Up to 4,000,000 shares
(1.42% of total number of shares issued, excluding treasury stock)
3. Total repurchase amount: Up to 24 billion yen
4. Period of repurchase: From January 27, 2015 through January 26, 2016
B) The accumulative number of own shares repurchased until June 30, 2015, pursuant to the Board of Directors resolution above:
1. Accumulative number of own shares repurchased: 250,200
2. Total accumulative repurchase amount: 2,053,391,400 yen
CONTACT: Masahiro Nagayasu
General Manager
Investor Relations
+81-75-935-6140
ir@nidec.com
Nidec Corporation specializes in the development, manufacturing and marketing of small precision motors and automotive and appliance components. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- appliances, air-conditioning and industrial equipment motors (40.5%);
- small precision motors (21.9%): pin motors for hard drives, fan motors, vibrating motors, brush motors and motor applications, etc. ;
- automotive components (21.3%);
- machines (12.1%): industrial robots, card readers, test systems, presses and power transmission drives, etc. ;
- electronic and optical components (3.9%): switches, trimmer potentiometers, lens units and camera shutters, etc. ;
- other (0.3%).
The net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (17.8%), China (26.7%), the United States (21.6%), Germany (6.1%), Italy (5.5%), Thailand (5.2%) and other (17.1%).