The shares buy-back programme will end when the preliminary financial statements for the 2008 financial year are approved and it may also be only partially completed.
When purchases are made, Benetton Group will, on the first trading day of the Stock Exchange week, advise the stock market and the competent authorities of details of the transactions carried out in the previous Stock Exchange week, on a daily basis, in terms of the number of shares purchased, the average price and the total value of the transactions.