Twenty-four million shares correspond to about two percent of total share capital
ABB initiated the share buy-back after approval at its annual general meeting on March 20, 2001. The 24 million shares correspond to about two percent of the company’s total share capital. The buy-back program is part of ABB’s commitment to create more value for shareholders. The cancellation of the shares and the reduction of the share capital will take place following approval of shareholders at the annual general meeting in 2002. The share buy-back took place exclusively on the SWX Swiss Exchange. It used a second line of trading established specifically for this purpose, in which ABB was the only purchaser. ABB (www.abb.com) serves manufacturing, process and consumer industries, utilities, the oil and gas markets, with 160,000 employees in more than 100 countries.