The Capital Group Companies, Inc. ("CGC") is the parent company of Capital Research and Management Company ("CRMC"). CRMC is a U.S.-based investment management company that manages the American Funds family of mutual funds. CRMC manages equity assets for various investment companies through three divisions, Capital Research Global Investors, Capital International Investors, and Capital World Investors. CRMC in turn is the parent company of Capital Group International, Inc. ("CGII"), which in turn is the parent company of five investment management companies ("CGII management companies"): Capital Guardian Trust Company, Capital International, Inc., Capital International Limited, Capital International Sárl and Capital International K.K. The CGII management companies primarily serve as investment managers to institutional clients. For a more complete description of our organization, please refer to our web site at www.capgroup.com.
Neither CGC nor any of its affiliates own shares of your company for its own account. Rather, the shares reported on this Notification are owned by accounts under the discretionary investment management of one or more of the investment management companies described above.
Pursuant to the Norwegian Securities Trading Act Section 3-2 and Regulations of 18 December 2002, we hereby disclose the following information.
On 4 May 2018, one or more of CGC's management company's disposed 562,162 shares, resulting in a shareholding of 6,819,788, amounting to 4.80%. Please see the attached schedule A for transaction details.
Capital Gaurdian Trust Company 1,496,519 1.05%
Capital International, Inc. 564,046 0.40%
Capital International Limited 67,999 0.05%
Capital International Sàrl 4,691,224 3.31%
CGC Total 6,819,788 shares 4.80%