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 12 July 2017, one or more of CGC's management company's
acquired 450,000 shares, resulting in a shareholding of
7,133,559, amounting to 5.03%. Please see attachment at
www.newsweb.no for further information.
For the purpose of this Report, the total voting rights
figure of 141,938,998 shares was used to calculate the
percentage of holdings. We believe this figure is current;
however, if this number is not accurate, please contact us
as soon as possible so we may make the necessary revisions.